The 19-year-old suspect was stripped and forced to walk in his underwear.
There were 22 cases of sexual abuse.
During April, there were 44 cases of neglect, 35 cases of sexual abuse, 16 cases of physical abuse and 11 cases of emotional abuse.
Ibthihaal Mohamed was physically and psychologically harmed by different individuals on different occasions, for a long period of time, a high-ranking police officer said.
Child abuse and sexual abuse remain key problems in the Maldives, and a mandatory child sex offenders' registry was published in 2015.
The ministry said 122 out of 272 reported cases were regarding different forms of child abuse - 45 percent of the total reported cases in October.
The gender ministry’s monthly statistics of reported cases have shown a drop from 260 cases in July to 246 in August, despite a rise in cases...
The horrific murder of three-year-old Mohamed Ibthihaal in January 2015 shocked the nation while reports that the authorities had been aware of abuse by his mother...
The High Court has issued today an order to withhold the passport of an Indian teacher suspected of sexually abusing several students a day after he...
Opposition Jumhooree Party MP Abdulla Riyaz has meanwhile asked the parliament's government oversight to investigate the failure to publicise a mandatory national registry of child sex...
Underaged female victims of a child prostitution ring uncovered in Fuvahmulah last week is not pregnant despite media reports to the contrary, the police have said.
