Stepmother who spanked small girl arrested after video sown in social media!

Stepmother who spanked small girl arrested after video sown in social media!

A video accompanied by a news item where a small girl who was assaulted by a woman in Nirveli, Kopai, Jaffna was spotlighted across the social media and the woman concerned has been taken into custody by police in the

area within the space of a few hours.

In this instance it is a small girl aged 6 years old who is subject to this assault and it is reported that this woman who is her stepmother has constantly been harassing the girl. A neighbour who could not bear watching this inhuman assault of the woman ultimately had videoed the incident. Later what he had done was publish it through the Facebook. As a result the said woman and the girl's father were taken into custody, Kopai Police reported. After the child's mother had died, this stepmother had got legally married to this girl's father; but she had been totally totally antagonistic to this small girl after her marriage.

On this particular moment the stepmother is seen beating the girl for the reason that she has refused to take a bath, she had told police. The stepmother is expected to be produced in courts for child abuse. Further investigations are underway. The video referred to, from below