{"id":116403,"date":"2021-07-23T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116403"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T20:51:25","slug":"rishads-brother-in-law-arrested-over-alleged-sexual-abuse-of-young-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/23\/rishads-brother-in-law-arrested-over-alleged-sexual-abuse-of-young-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishad\u2019s brother-in-law arrested over alleged sexual abuse of young woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The brother-in-law of MP Rishad Bathiudeen has been arrested on charges of allegedly sexually abusing a young woman, the Police Spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident was brought to light amidst the probes carried out into the death of a 16-year-old domestic worker at the parliamentarian\u2019s private residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/NpAfJcltpvA\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigating officers have learned that the brother-in-law of MP Bathiudeen had sexually abused a female who worked as a domestic helper at the parliamentarian\u2019s official residence between 2015 and 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girl, who is now 22 years of age, had shed light on the matter during police interrogations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 44-year-old suspect is reportedly a residence of Medawachchiya area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, three including MP Bathiudeen\u2019s wife, her father and the intermediary who brought the teenage girl to the Bathiudeen residence were taken into custody earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suspicions were rife after a 16-year-old girl, who was serving as domestic help at the Bathiudeen residence, succumbed to severe burn injuries on July 15 while receiving treatment at the Colombo National Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports revealed that she had been under medical care for 12 days since her admission to the hospital on July 03.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The post-mortem on the girl\u2019s death had concluded that she had been sexually exploited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The brother-in-law of MP Rishad Bathiudeen has been arrested on charges of allegedly sexually abusing a young woman, the Police Spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana says.&nbsp; The incident was brought to light amidst the probes carried out into the death of a 16-year-old domestic worker at the parliamentarian\u2019s private residence. Investigating officers have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}