2 teachers held for assaulting 4-year-old in posh Kolkata school

After a day-long protest by parents and guardians on Friday, two teachers of a school in south Kolkata have been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a four-year-old child. The two accused were charged with Sections 2 and 4 of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act.

The father of the kindergarten student said that his daughter, after returning from school on Thursday, had been crying incessantly in pain and there was blood in her urine. “We took her to our family doctor. As soon as the doctor saw it she said she suspected a foul play, and advised us to take her to the police station and file a complaint,” he said. He added that later they were informed that two school teachers had lured the child with chocolate, and took her to the toilet and assaulted her. “I am surprised that we spend lakhs of rupees to get our children admitted to a school like this,” the father said adding that he would not send his daughter to that school again.

After filing a police complaint, she was taken to the state-run SSKM hospital where she was kept under treatment overnight. A four-member medical team conducted two …read more