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Police probe reveals Kotahena schoolgirl was sexually abused last December
The police announced that the 15-year-old schoolgirl in Kotahena, who is said to have committed suicide on April 29, had allegedly been sexually abused by a teacher at her Bambalapitiya school last December, as revealed by the police probe.
The Police Media Division in a statement said, the Bambalapitiya Police acting on a complaint received on December 8 took the suspect teacher into custody on January 8 and produced him before the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s court to be remanded till January 10.
The suspect was later released on bail and a travel ban had been imposed pending further investigations. The case is scheduled to be taken up on May 19.
The student, who lived at Expo Housing Complex on Galpoththa Road in Kotahena, died after jumping from the sixth floor of her apartment building.
On May 5, the Police Bureau for the Investigation of Abuse of Children and Women had received a telephone complaint to its 109 hotline from a third party, that the concerned child had committed suicide owing to the psychological trauma caused by a teacher at a private tuition class insulting her in front of other students.
The bureau had reported facts to the courts on this latest finding.
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