The police have arrested a 22-year-old driver for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter for the past one year. The accused (name withheld), a driver with a private company, had married the girl’s mother, who works as a domestic help, in 2006, after her previous marriage did not work out. The mother and daughter had been living with the accused since then.

On Friday, the 8-year-old told her mother about being repeatedly raped by the accused. “The survivor said he used to shut the door and windows and play loud music when he raped her so that no one would find out about it.