Protesters in Myanmar demand justice after 2-year-old raped
Posted Jul 6, 2019 06:34:41 AM.
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YANGON, Myanmar — Hundreds of people have marched to Myanmar’s Central Investigation Department in Yangon to demand justice for a 2-year-old girl who was allegedly raped at her nursery school in the country’s capital in May.
Police say a 29-year-old suspect was rearrested on Wednesday and charged in the case the next day. The man was initially arrested in May but was released by a court due to a lack of evidence, and many people in Myanmar have taken to Facebook to say that he has been wrongfully accused.
The girl was 2 years, 11 months old when she was allegedly raped at her school on May 16. Her mother opened a complaint at a police station the following day, according to local media reports.
The Associated Press
