Every day, more and more children in Bangladesh, both male female, are facing
sexual abuse or becoming victims of rape. The heinous crime has risen to such a
level that a girl as young as four years old had to be admitted to the One-Stop
Crisis Centre. Later, a 52-year-old pervert was arrested over the incident on
November 6. Meanwhile, an accused was jailed for life on November 12 for raping
another four-year-old in Dhaka’s Nawabganj area in 2018.Moreover, a mentally
challenged 11-year-old child was also reportedly raped in Narayanganj on
November 3. Most of the time, the culprits are somehow related to the children.
On October 28, a man was arrested in Chuadanga for raping his grandchild while
another man was arrested on the same night for raping his fifth-grader
stepdaughter. Recently, several media reports of male children being raped have
surfaced. Many of them were raped by their school and madrasa teachers. On
October 19, Rangunia police arrested a madrasa teacher, Md Nasir, 35, after
receiving several complaints that he followed a routine to rape the male
students of the madrasa.connection to all such incidents, it can be said over
the past two years, child rapes are on the rise in Bangladesh. In 2020, at least
974 child rape incidents were reported between January and November, according
to the data of Ain o Salish Kendra. The highest number of child rapes (229) was
recorded in October while the second highest (118) was recorded in last month.
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