Two teachers convicted for ‘unnatural sex act’ with five-year-old in Bihar

In a judgement that came two years after the incident of the molestation of a kindergarten child, a court in Patna has convicted two woman teachers of a renowned English-medium school for “unnatural sexual act” with the five-year-old girl student. The order was passed on Thursday by Special POCSO judge Ravindra Nath Tripathi, who fixed July 20 as the date for deciding the quantum of sentence for Nutan Joseph and Indu Anand.

Special Public Prosecutor Suresh Chandra Prasad said the two women have been held guilty under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Joseph and Anand were arrested in November, 2016, after the girl’s parents filed a complaint against them at Mahila Thana in Patna. According to the police complaint, the parents had said that the two teachers asked their 5-year-old girl to undress in a classroom and then sexually assaulted her.

The two teachers were arrested on the basis of a medical report which confirmed sexual assault of the five-year-old girl student of a reputed English medium school in Patna, City Superintendent of Police Chandan Kushwaha told PTI.
The two were then forwarded to Beur jail to 14 days judicial custody after production before Additional District Judge I Parvez Alam.

A case was registered at the woman police station by parents of the victim LKG student against the two teachers teaching at primary level of the school under POSCO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offence) Act. The medical test of the minor conducted at PMCH confirmed sexual assault and on the basis of which the police arrested the two teachers, the SP said.

The incident came to light when the five-year-old girl student narrated her woes to her mother about the two teachers sexually assaulting her for quiet some time by taking her to a secluded room near bathroom.

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