New Delhi: A special POCSO court in Arunachal Pradesh has handed over the death sentence to the warden of a state government residential primary school who sexually abused multiple children, some as young as six for eight years. The chargesheet filed by the police details the horrors that unfolded at the school, from children being made to watch porn to being drugged and waking up in pain.
On Thursday, the Special Court in Yupia sentenced Yumken Bagra (33), who had been the school warden from 2014 to 2022, when the first complaint of sexual assault against him was filed by the father of twin girls aged 12, The Indian Express reported.
Later, 19 other children, some former students of the school and some still enrolled there at the time, gave statements to the police about the sexual abuse that they faced. Two other teachers from the school, Marbom Ngomdir, who taught Hindi, and Singtung Yorpen, the headmaster, were convicted for abetting the offences and not reporting them. Bagra was charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act for rape and sexual assault and sections of the IPC for poisoning and criminal intimidation. The other two teachers were charged with criminal intimidation and aiding the commission of offences under the POCSO Act.
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