NEW DELHI: The
head of a
school in southern India has been
arrested on suspicion of raping scores of disabled girls
over a period of at least four years, police said on Thursday.
They said complaints from two former pupils at the
school for speech- and hearing-impaired girls in Tamil Nadu state had alerted them to the alleged abuse. Both are **w adults and are working at the school.
"We received the complaint from two victims who are working in the
school about ***ual exploitation of girls," said Jayachandaran, a local police ******r who goes by just one name.
One, a 19-year-old, alleged she was repeatedly raped by the
school head when she was just 15 and that
school staff had taken her to hospital for an abortion.
Police have received a similar complaint from a second female employee who alleged she was also raped by the
school head, and that he was continuing to abuse children, Jayachandaran said.
"Both the complaints are under investigation, but we suspect scores of other girls were raped," he said, adding police had sought help to communicate with the students through sign language.
أكثر...