Father charged for abusing daughter

Daughter who went to see father to second wife's house because of sheer love ....abused by him

      The case of a heart-rending incident of a daughter who was abused by her own father was heard at Gangodawila Magistrates Court sometime ago. The incident had taken place when the daughter had paid a visit to the house of her father who had by then deserted them and while his second wife was in the house.

      She says that sometime ago her father has had an argument with her mother because of an illegal affair ... and he had left the house and gone and lived in another house and subsequently had got married there. This girl further says that she had gone to that house to see her father for the sake of sheer love and affection and had later faced this mishap.

      This 9-year old girl had been living in her grandmother's house in Panadura and because she had had a longing to see her father for sometime, she had been escorted and left in Maharagama where her father had been living -- this was during the first school  holidays.

      The abused daughter goes on to record this unfortunate incident saying that when spending some days at the Maharagama house .... one day her father's second wife had gone to a nearby boutique at about 7 in the night and on that occasion it was only she and her father who had been in the house.

      On that occasion her father had come close to her and and had started fondling her body at which moment she had sensed that he was trying to do some sort of harm to her but not having understood the gravity of the act had felt somewhat uncomfortable. The second wife had then suddenly arrived home at that moment ad having seen the incident had reprimanded her father, according to what she says.

      Later, with the support of the woman she had gone to Maharagama police and had lodged an entry at the Child and Women's Affairs Unit there. 

      It was after that that the suspect father who had engaged in an act of abuse which was a disgrace to all humanity disregarding even the fact that his daughter, the complainant who was only a minor of schoolgoing age was taken into custody on suspicion.

     Nugegoda Additional Magistrate and Additional Judge Mrs. Aruni Attygala ordered that the suspect father be remanded until the 10th of next month on charges of having attempted sexual harassment.