A 14-year-old girl was reportedly impregnated by a private school correspondent, Kothapalli Vijay Kumar, in Kakinada. The accused, 60, has been arrested on Sunday.
The incident came to light on Saturday after the girl complained of health complications associated with the abortion of her pregnancy.
Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Kakinada Disha DSP S. Murali Mohan said that Vijay Kumar had allegedly sexually assaulted the girl for over three months by giving her ‘medicines’ telling her that the medicines were to prevent from being infected with COVID-19. She was impregnated and her pregnancy was also allegedly aborted by May 31.