TURA: Police in Tura have arrested a man who had been sexually assaulting a thirteen-year-old girl for the past couple of months in a locality in Tura.
The accused had been targeting the girl, who happened to know him, and committing sexual assault while threatening her not to reveal the incident to anyone.
The girl finally mustered up courage to narrate her ordeal to her family and they quickly approached the police and filed a complaint on Monday.
The accused, identified as Kalseng R Marak has since been arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and sent to jail. In the last one week as many as three rape incidents have been reported in the region revealing how unsafe young girls are.
