HIV positive man booked for raping stepdaughter for months in Chennai suburbs

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), September 19: An utterly shocking incident of repeated sexual assault has come to fore from Sholavaram, a Chennai suburb, where an HIV positive 40-year-old man allegedly raped his stepdaughter regularly for several months.

The victim, a student of class 8 who lives in a hostel, shared the gory details of her ordeal with her hostel warden. The survivor told her that her stepfather raped her on multiple occasions. It all happened when the girl was forced to leave hostel during the pandemic and had to stay with her mother and her husband at their residence.

The victim’s mother is also HIV positive and after her biological father’s death, the girl and her mother moved to Bengaluru where they worked as household maids. Her mother while in Bengaluru met the accused and developed a relationship with the man whom she later married. Last year, the couple moved to Sholavaram from Bengaluru.  

The accused used to allegedly rape the victim when her mother was at work and the girl was alone at their residence, said the police. The culprit raped her multiple times for several months.

It was the warden who informed the police of the crime. Based on the complaint, the police arrested the accused and sent the victim for counseling at a government counseling home.