The police on Thursday arrested a 17-year-old boy from Mahim for kidnapping a seven-year-old girl and molesting her.u00a0He was arrested and remanded to a children’s home. The accused had allegedly sexually assaulted the child on several occasions since January.

The victim eventually told her mother about the sexual harassment she had gone through, after which a complaint was registered at Mahim police station. According to DCP Dhananjay Kulkarni (Zone V) the accused lived in the same locality in Mahim as the victim. He lured her on some pretext to an isolated location in the area and violated her. On several occasions that followed, she was victimised by the accused, who threatened her of dire consequences if she talked to anyone about what he did to her.