Calling children vulnerable to the desire of ‘lusty perverts’, the Sewree Fast-Track Sessions Court sentenced a 25-year-old Girgaum resident to life imprisonment for the kidnap, rape and murder of a boy who was his neighbour.

The court observed that though the boy had consented to having sex with the youth, this was irrelevant, as the victim was a minor. The youth was convicted on the basis of his own confession, backed by eyewitness testimony and soil samples from the crime scene.