INDIA
The Hindu
The police on Wednesday arrested a youth under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012 on charges of sexually assaulting a minor girl in the district.
According to the police, Sijo George,23, who was the coordinator of the Kerala Catholic Youth Movement under the Mananthavadi diocese, had allegedly molested a 16-year-old girl .
As a the coordinator of the movement, the accused sexually assaulted the girl who was brilliant in studies and she became pregnant, the police said. Sijo resigned from the post on March 3 after the vicar of of his parish directed him to resign when the inciden came to light, the police added.
The girl gave birth to a child at a private hospital in Kozhikode on December 28. Later the baby was shifted to an adoption centre under a church in Kozhikode district promising her family that the youth would marry the girl when she turned 18 years.
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