Youth Accused of Sodomizing Minor Boy in Kushtia

A case was filed accusing a youth of sodomizing a madrasa student in Daulatdia upazila of the district on Friday night.

The mother of the 11-year-old victim, a student of a local madrasa and resident of Hussainabad Kandirpara village, filed the case against the youth identified as Joy, 22, of Hussainabad Mallickpara in the same upazila.

In the case statement, the mother said her madrasa-going son went to a local field to cut grass for their cows on Friday morning.

The accused tactfully took the boy to a nearby betel leaf orchard and sodomized him for a long time, the statement said.

As the victim didn’t return till noon, the mother searched for him and found him injured in the orchard. Later he disclosed the matter to his mother.

SM Jabid Hasan, officer-in-charge of Daulatdia Police Station, said the victim was admitted to Kushtia Medical College Hospital for a medical test on Saturday morning.

Though the accused has been on the run, efforts are on to nab him, the OC added.