Bangladeshi worker arrested on charges of child sexual abuse
A Bangladeshi worker was arrested on Saturday night on suspicion of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl on the island of Nilandhoo in Faafu atoll.
06 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
A Bangladeshi worker was arrested on Saturday night on suspicion of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl on the island of Nilandhoo in Faafu atoll.
The case was reported to the police around 11:45pm and the 23-year-old suspect was taken into custody around 2:30am. He was hiding under a machine used to mix cement at a construction site in an uninhabited area of the island.
On August 2, the Nilandhoo magistrate court ordered the police to hold the suspect in remand detention for 15 days.
A 57-year-old Maldivian man was meanwhile arrested in Fuvahmulah yesterday on suspicion of sexually abusing his 11-year-old daughter, according to Haveeru.
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