Kerala man sentenced to 141 years in jail for raping stepdaughter
Hindustan TimesA Kerala court found a man guilty of regularly raping his little stepdaughter for several years while her mother was out from home, and he was sentenced to 141 years in jail overall. The defendant and the victim are Tamil Nadu locals, and the stepfather had been sexually abusing the daughter since 2017, a police official involved in the case claimed. In accordance with certain sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, the IPC, and the Juvenile Justice Act, Judge Ashraf A. M. of the Manjeri Fast Track Special Court sentenced the man to 141 years in jail. According to a police officer involved in the case, the victim and the convicted are both residents of Tamil Nadu, and the child had been sexually abused by her stepfather since 2017.