Child killed after rape attempt

Police in Gazipur have found the body of a child killed by her attacker after a failed rape attempt.

Gazipur Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 15 July 2014, 09:37 AM
Updated : 15 July 2014, 09:37 AM
Ten-year old Maria Akhter was found dead at 10pm Monday six hours after she went missing.
Her body was found wrapped in a bed sheet in the generator room of the building in Konabari’s Esrar Nagar where she lived with her parents, said SI Md Zakir Hossain of Konabari Police outpost.
A tenant of the building ‘Shumon’, 30, arrested along with security guard Abdul Alim, 43, has admitted to having killed the child.
“He lured the child from the stairs to the generator room saying he will give her a Koel chick. He tried but failed to rape her.
“Shumon told us he suffocated her because he was afraid people would find out that he had forced himself on her,” said SI Zakir.
A fourth-grade student, Maria would walk to her school Shahin Cadet Academy situated next to her home.
</div>  </p><p>Her parents began looking for her after she did not return from school at 3pm Monday. The child’s father Akhtaruzzaman filed a general diary at the Joydebpur Police Station in the evening after failing to locate her.<br><br>“Police searched in various places and found her schoolbag before finding her body in the generator room.”<br><br>Maria’s body was handed over to her parents after an autopsy at Gazipur Sadar Hospital. The child will be buried in her village at Faridpur’s Laxmipur.</p>