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MARGAO
While there’s no perceptible rise in the number of domestic violence cases during the lockdown, two cases of sexual assault on minors were reported in Salcete, besides an attempt to kidnap a minor girl by a minor boy.
While in the first case of sexual assault, a minor girl with IQ problem was sexually assaulted by three persons on different dates, including by a minor boy, the second case of rape had taken place after the accused had befriended the minor girl.
The police have arrested all the accused persons involved in the two cases.
Children and women rights activists, Auda Viegas, said in both the cases of rape, the accused persons had befriended the victims before assaulting them sexually.
“In the case of the victim with IQ problem, a 35-year-old man befriended the girl and took her out before sexually assaulting her. His two friends too later assaulted the victim,” Auda said.
She pointed out that the second case of sexual assault was reported when a person, who is allegedly into drug peddling, had befriended the minor victim girl before assaulting her sexually.
As far as the kidnapping case is concerned, Auda said since both the accused and the victim were minors, members of the two families decided against taking the cases forward.
Auda pointed out that though there’s been no spurt in domestic violence cases during the lockdown period, a case of couple from Karnataka had come to light after they decided not to stay together. “The young couple from Karnataka had come to Goa just before the lockdown. Their relations, however, strained and both decided to stay separate.
