Kochi, July 03: A Paravoor-like sex racket has come to light at Kothamangalam, a town situated 45 kilometres north east of Kochi, where too a father forced his 15-year-old daughter into prostitution.
The father, a daily labourer, forced his daughter into sex trade after he began to lose steady income owing to illnesses. The incident came to light after police summoned both to the station upon hearing rumours on a sex racket. On being questioned, the girl revealed that she was forced into flesh trade by the father.
According to the statement given by the girl, her 48-year-old father, Mohammad Ali of Nellikuzhi, presented her to his friends for a few hundred rupees. The abused girl is the eldest of the two daughters by his second wife.
The girl told police that she was abused by at least 10 persons for a period of one and a half years. After that, she was also presented by Mohammed Ali to strangers.
The girl was abused at various places in and around Kothamangalam in parked cars and even behind roadside bushes.
Police has registered a case and arrested the father and two of his friends, Nellimattathil Shahul, 28, of Paimattom and Burhan alias Thakkudu, 28, of Ayiroopadam, by Saturday evening.
—Agencies