Teenage girl raped by father and abandoned by mother, fights case with help of neighbor in Hyderabad

The XII Additional Sessions Court at Nampally in Hyderabad recently sentenced a 38-year-old man to life imprisonment for sexually abusing his daughter several times.

The court also awarded the 14-year-old girl compensation of Rs 5 lakh.

According to the Times of Indiathe girl, who was attacked several times by her father, was even abandoned by her mother during the trial. However, the underage girl took over her parents with the help of a neighbor, an ‘uncle and aunt’.

During the trial, the girl’s mother went so far as to claim that the charges were trumped up because the girl wanted to be adopted by the aunt’s family.

In court, the neighbor gave a detailed account of the events that unfolded after the crime, the report said.