16-year-old boy ‘raped’ for a year by 15 boys

In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old boy in Mumbai has alleged that he was raped by 15 boys over the past one year.

The boy living in Andheri (west)  filed a complaint and told that he revealed it to a friend when he felt “unbearable pain” two days ago after the last assault on June 26.  The Mumbai Police has registered a case against all 15 accused, all between 15 and 17 years. Seven accused have been detained.

The police also said that the school boy was also blackmailed and physically assaulted. A medical examination has confirmed the sexual assault, said the police.

The boy was first raped in 2016 by a friend who was his neighbour. As per a police officer, the alleged rapist shot a video of the act on his mobile and shared the clip with his other friends. “The victim was very scared and did not tell his family about the abuse,” said the officer.The neighbour then started blackmailing the victim, a class 9 student, and forced him to have sex with others. The victim’s ordeal did not end there. Over the past two months, one of the boys had been asking the victim to give him money to eat in a restaurant. When the victim refused to comply, “boys took him to an isolated corner on June 26 and raped him once more.”

“Whenever I tried to resist, they would hit me,” the boy mentioned in his complaint.