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VADODARA: A 16-year-old Class XI student rapes his six-year-old neighbour in a village in Sankheda taluka of Chhota Udepur district and flees home after the crime. Cops, however, managed to detain the minor accused on Sunday evening.

According to the police, the girl was playing outside her house when her parents were chopping wood in their backyard.

The accused noticed her playing alone and lured her to his home with chocolate.

“He asked the girl to come to his home where he has kept chocolate. When the minor girl followed the accused inside his home, the boy pinned her on the floor and raped her,” said cops.

When the girl started crying, the accused asked her to leave his home.

She reached home crying when her mother asked her the reason for her tears and also noticed blood stains on her undergarments.

The girl narrated the ordeal to her mother and the parents went to the boy’s home, but found the house locked.

They then spotted the accused fleeing on his bike and tried to stop him, but he sped away.

The parents lodged a complaint of rape and under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act at Sankheda police station late on Saturday evening.

“We have detained the boy and we will take him to government hospital for his medical test and then send him to children’s home,” the police official said.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

