Saviour turns exploiter of ill-treated girl

A young girl who went to the Hatton Police station to lodge a complaint regarding ill-treatment at the hands of a relative, ended up being taken as a domestic aide to work in the house of a senior police officer in Peradeniya, the Human Rights Commission has been told.

The girl had gone on Monday to lodge a complaint regarding ill-treatment at her aunt’s house at Manikkawatte, where she was staying with her brother since the demise of her parents and instead of recording her statement she was taken to work in the house of the police officer.

However, HRC intervention resulted in her release by Friday, after her brother lodged a complaint with them.

Earlier, when her brother went to the Hatton Police station to lodge a complaint on behalf of his sister, they had allegedly refused to enter a complaint from him. Instead, the Police had got him to sign on a police book and he was unaware of the contents of the documents he had signed.

A woman police officer in charge of the women’s and children’s security division of the Hatton Police also had been hard on the youth and chased him out saying that they knew nothing about the girl.

However, after the issue was taken up by the HRC the girl was released.