Mumbai: Octogenarian woman and husband get sentenced to jail for raping 4-year-old neighbourhood girl
In a rare case of a woman getting convicted of rape under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), a special court under the POCSO Act on Thursday sentenced an 81-year-old woman and her 87-year-old husband to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for penetrating with their finger, a four-year-old child of their building in 2013.
Special POCSO judge Rekha N. Pandhare also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each on the elderly couple to be paid as compensation to the child. The duo were found guilty under Sec 6 of the POCSO Act for aggravated penetrative sexual assault.