Tamil Nadu shocker: Army man sexually abuses adopted child, murders her

An army man and his wife were arrested from Madurai for sexually abusing and killing their adopted daughter. While the army man abused the child, his wife is accused of trying to cover up the entire matter. The girl was the daughter of the woman's sister and her mother had died years ago. She was adopted by her aunt after her father abandoned her.

Madurai: In a shocking incident reported from Tamil Nadu’s Madurai, an Armymen allegedly sexually assaulted his 11-year-old adopted daughter and later killed her. Police have now arrested the man along with his wife. The woman is a relative of the girl and had adopted her after her mother died.

Armyman was on vacation at home

Investigations into the case revealed that the army man was employed as a subedar with the Indian Army. He had reached his house last week for a month-long vacation, from Jammu and Kashmir where he was posted. The man had sexually assaulted the girl and she complained to her aunt, the army man’s wife. Instead of alerting the police about the man’s misdeeds, the woman tried to cover up the matter.

The armyman later killed the child and the couple took her to the government hospital in Madurai on March 22, claiming that they had found her unconscious. A post mortem was done and it revealed sexual abuse. After 2 days of intense questioning, the couple was arrested. According to reports the man had smothered the child.

The couple has been booked for murder and under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Police said that the girl’s mother had died when she was an infant and her father abandoned her and her other siblings. Her aunt then stepped in to take care of the girl. She was in fact raised by the Armyman and his wife.

The police are now planning to approach her biological father and hand over the body to him for the last rites. As of now there is no word on what happened to her other siblings. The police are planing to make a strong case against the 2 accused and present them in court soon.