Kerala court sentences woman to 20 years’ imprisonment for abetting rape of minor stepdaughter

However, as the sentences are to be served concurrently and the highest of the jail terms given to the man is 20 years, he will serve 20 years in prison, Aroor said.

The stepmother is already serving a 20-year jail term in Kannur women’s prison for sexually assaulting the girl in 2021.

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The case and the sentence

She was sentenced to a cumulative 75 years of imprisonment by the Nadapuram special court in September last year, Aroor said.

As the highest of the varying sentences awarded to her back then was 20 years, she is serving that presently, he said.

The father too was sentenced in that case for six months for the offence of not reporting the assault on his daughter, the prosecutor said.

Both of them are also facing trial in another case of sexual assault of the same child, he said.

In the instant case, the main accused repeatedly raped the girl at her home and at his residence, the prosecutor said.

When she told her father and stepmother, they told her not to disclose it to anyone.

After being subjected to repeated assaults on various occasions, the girl was taken to a rehabilitation centre where she disclosed what had happened to her and who all were involved, the prosecutor said.

Subsequently, the police lodged a case against the father, stepmother and the main accused, he said.

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