NEW DELHI: A 14-year-old boy in R K Puram was apprehended on Wednesday morning for sexually abusing his four-year-old neighbour at his house while she had gone to relieve herself. He was later sent to a juvenile justice home.

The girl, who studies in Class I had kept mum about the incident for a day but revealed the matter to her parents when they pressed her. She said that the boy had caught her while she was coming out of the toilet, he had allegedly forced her to sit on his lap and put his fingers into her cavities. When the child cried out in pain he let her go and fled from the spot.

The girl, whose father works at central government office in Delhi stays in the same locality. The parents immediately registered a case against the accused boy under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). He was produced before a juvenile justice board and sent to a correctional home.

The police also took the child for counselling to an NGO .