5 years jail for youth for sexual assault on 11-yr-old who called him 'dada'

MUMBAI: A special court on Saturday sentenced a 24-year-old to five-years-jail for undressing and sexually assaulting a 11year-old girl, a family friend’s daughter who used to address him as ‘dada’. Special under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act AD Deo said in her judgment while deciding the sentence, that the aggravating circumstance against him is that he had committed aggravated sexual assault on a victim aged 11 years 7 months and had also disrobed her. The court also noted that the sexual assault is upon a victim who was the daughter of a family friend and who would address him as ‘dada’. The other circumstance, the court said, is that cases of child abuse are on the rise in society. -