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COIMBATORE: The city police on Thursday arrested an 18-year-old boy for raping his minor sister, who is now eight months pregnant.

Police were on the lookout for the boy, an engineering diploma student, for the last few days. His parents had refused to lodge a complaint against him. Police called the boy’s father to the station and sought his help to trace his whereabouts. Meanwhile, relatives of the boy handed him over to Selvapuram police on Thursday evening. He was lodged in the juvenile home at Lakshmi Mills as he was a minor at the time of the incident.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the boy had raped his 13-year-old sister, a class IX student, several times. Their parents, who came to know about it after the girl became pregnant, took her to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) for abortion . Doctors there informed police and the child protection officer.

“The boy was addicted to porn videos. He used to watch the video in his mobile phone and showed them to the victim also,” a police officer said.

Selvapuram police have registered a case against the boy under some sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.

