Another girl raped by 'father of six'

A 10-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a 38-year-old father of six in a village in Chittagong's Anwara upazila yesterday.

Doctors at One-stop Crisis Centre (OCC) of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH), where the girl is undergoing treatment, said her condition was stable.

Police are trying to nab the alleged rapist, Jamir Hossain, a farmer and neighbour of the victim's family, who is on the run, said Anwara Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abdus Samad.

A case was filed with the police station in this connection, he said.

“The girl, daughter of a farmer, went to a field, leased by Jamir, near her residence in the morning to play with her friends,” said the victim's uncle.

At one point, Jamir found the girl alone in the field around 10:00am and forcibly gagged and raped her. Her friends later found her lying unconscious and immediately informed her family members, he said.

The girl was rushed to CMCH around 12:30pm and transferred to OCC around 2:00pm, he said, adding that Jamir had married twice and had four daughters and two sons.