Mumbai: 2 brothers arrested for raping minor cousin

Mumbai, Jan 2  Mumbai police have arrested two brothers – a 22-year-old man and an 18-year-old teenager – for allegedly raping their 13-year-old cousin repeatedly while showing her porn movies before raping victim and impregnating her official said here on Tuesday.
The girl lives with her parents in a society in Vikhroli area of city subarb, police said. The father and mother hold multiple jobs and the cousins, also residents of Vikhroli, frequently visited the house to give her company, officials said.
The parents were under the impression that the trio shared a family bond, and were comfortable with them (the cousins) visiting the house in their absence, the officials said.
On December 31 the victim mother came to know that her daughter is pregnant and after medical examination it was confirmed that she was 23 weeks pregnant, the officials said.
The police recorded the statements of the girl and her parents and registered an FIR against the two men. In her statement, the girl said the 18-year-old cousin raped her first, in May. The second accused, aged 22, started raping her in August. The girl said the two would show her pornographic videos and pictures before raping/sexually molesting her.
She said she was repeatedly raped by the second accused, and sexually molested multiple times by the first.
Both brothers have been slapped with charges including 376 (2) (n) (commits rape repeatedly on the same woman), 376 (DA) (gang rape on woman under the age of 16), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354 (a) (sexual harassment) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code; and sections 5 (L) (penetrative sexual assault on a child more than once or repeatedly), 5 (g) (gang penetrative sexual assault), 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault), 11 (3) (shows any object to a child in any form or media for pornographic purposes) and 12 (sexual harassment) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.