A 15-year-old girl delivered a baby at a hospital in Gurugram ’s Sohna after she was allegedly raped by a 22-year-old man she befriended on Instagram, police said on Saturday.
The incident came to light when the girl complained of severe abdominal pain and was rushed to a sub-divisional hospital in Sohna. Hospital authorities alerted the police, following which a team of investigators reached the hospital and recorded statements from the girl, her parents and the doctors. “He hails from Nuh and will be arrested soon. The victim was stable but still at hospital for treatment.
Based on the girl’s statement, an FIR was registered against the suspect under Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences ( POCSO ) Act at City Sohna police station on Thursday.
Doctors informed her parents that she was pregnant and experiencing labour pain, police said. Neither the girl nor her parents were aware of the pregnancy, as there had been hardly any visible physical changes, a senior police official said. The condition of the boy child is also stable and both of them are under observation of the doctors,” he said.
“During the counselling, the victim told that she had befriended a man on Instagram almost a one and half years back. He lured her to meet her at various places and had sexually assaulted her. out of fear and unaware of the consequences, she never told anything to her parents,” the officer said.
