However, the witness refused to let the victim go.
He insisted on taking the victim back to their previous abode.
He said the accused came there too and confronted the victim. In a bid to save the victim from further assaults, the witness then took the child to another place close by. The witness said the next morning, when the accused left the place, he immediately spoke to the victim who in turn confided that he was being abused for nearly two weeks. He further stated that fearing the accused, who was a drug addict and aggressive, he kept quiet. He said in the wee hours of September 29, 2015, he saw the accused sexually assaulting the boy. He said he knew the accused and the victim through an NGO that supported them. The witness said he and many other children had no families and many of them were addicted to drugs. The informant lived under a railway bridge at the time of the incident in 2015. The deposition of both boys has now helped nail the 24-year-old accused, Anil Yenke, who was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by a special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act court on Thursday. MUMBAI: A plucky teenager living on the streets rescued a nine-year-old boy who was being repeatedly sexually abused by a man and helped him lodge a police complaint.
