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Elderly Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Sexual Assault Of Minor Girl In Kerala

On the Charges of sexual assault on a minor, elderly man gets 20 years of jail-time sentence. Allegedly a 56-year-old man was charged by a special court on Monday for sexually harrassing an LKG student two years ago in this district.

Nadapuram Fast Track Special Court (POCSO) judge Suhaib M gave the punishment for the offence of penetrative sexual assault on a minor under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Fine imposed

The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 65000 on the culprit, Public Prosecutor Manoj Arppr claimed. The horrific incident took place in November 2021.

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The incident

It has been reported that the elderly man took the girl in a goods auto rickshaw and assaulted her.

According to reports, the man is a convicted felon. He was recently sentenced to 5 years and two years by the same court in two other cases of sexual assault of minor girls, said the Public Prosecutor

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What is POSCO?

POSCO stands for Protection of Children From Sexual Offences, which was passed in 2012 to comprehensively deal with the issue of sexual offences against children. It has three broad categories of punishable offences: Sexual assault, sexual harassment and child pornography.

Srushti Sharma

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