A special court has sentenced a tempo driver to 10-year jail for luring a 11-year-old boy with chocolates and his mobile and then sexually assaulting him in the vehicle.
The abuse continued for a month. They came to light only when a 17-year-old friend of the elder brother of the child saw the boy being taken to the rear of the tempo by the man. The teen got suspicious and peeked through a gap in the shutter and was shocked by what he witnessed. He fled and told the child’s elder brother later. The child revealed his ordeal to his father once he was taken into confidence.
Child underwent mental trauma
The court said while deciding the quantum of sentence that the child has undergone mental trauma due to the sexual offence and the peaceful memory of childhood is disturbed by such dirty experience due to the accused. Special Judge Priti Kumar Ghule said in the judgment that it will definitely affect the overall development of the child.
The accused had taken the defence that the teen had falsely implicated him using the child due to a quarrel over the child and his friend throwing stones over a stray dog. The court rejected this defence.
The court also noted that man lives in the tempo and is jobless when it is parked. It also referred to obscene pictures in his mobile and said that it is seen he watches such content. It concluded that the empty mind of the accused was filled with lust and hence he committed the act on the child. It also noted that it is with sexual intention that he lured the child with chocolates and mobile.
