VADODARA: A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 15-year-old boy in a farm in Simaliya village of Bodeli taluka on Monday.An offence of rape and sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered against the boy at Bodeli police station on Tuesday.Police said the girl, who studies in UKG in a private school in Bodeli, had tagged along with her grandfather to their farm in the village on Monday evening. The girl’s grandfather went to the farm to supervise some ongoing civil work. At the same time, the girl’s distant uncle and his sons also reached there.When the girl was playing there with her cousins, the boy reached there and lured her with mangoes. He took her in the bushes near the farm and allegedly raped her. Seeing her cry on returning home late in the evening, her mother asked her the reason. The girl then narrated everything to her mother. Cops said that the girl was also bleeding near her private parts.Her parents then took her to a private hospital in Bodeli from where she was referred to SSG Hospital in Vadodara.“The girl is undergoing treatment in Vadodara and therefore we have not been able to speak to her,” said V R Bhil, circle police inspector, Bodeli. He added that once the girl’s health improves and her family members return, more details can be known.

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