OUR CORRESPONDENT, Netrokona

The doctor who treated an 11-year-old rape victim in Netrokona’s Madan upazila and later shared details of the case with the media has allegedly received death and rape threats.

Dr Sayma Akter, a gynaecologist at a diagnostic centre in the upazila, filed a general diary with Madan Police Station on Thursday, said the station’s Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Tarikul Islam.

“Police are taking her security concerns seriously,” the OC added.

According to the GD, the 11-year-old girl went to Dr Sayma on April 30 with medical complications. An examination found that she was 27 weeks pregnant. After speaking with the girl and her mother, the doctor learned that a teacher at the madrasa she attended had allegedly sexually abused her.

As the treating physician, Dr Sayma shared necessary information with the media about the victim’s condition. Her statements were aired on television, published by online news outlets, and widely circulated on social media.

Since then, she has allegedly received abusive messages as well as death and gang-rape threats from various Facebook accounts and WhatsApp numbers.

In the GD, Dr Sayma said she and her family are living in extreme fear and insecurity and are worried about possible attacks.

On Wednesday, madrasa teacher Amanullah Mahmudi Sagar, the accused in a case over raping and impregnating the 11-year-old, was sent to jail following his arrest.

According to the first information report (FIR), on October 2 last year, after classes ended in the afternoon, Sagar told the child to sweep the mosque adjacent to the madrasa. By that time, other teachers and students had already left for home. After the child finished sweeping, he told her to clean his room. When she entered the room, he raped her.

The FIR further said that when the child cried out, he threatened to beat her and expel her from the madrasa.

The child was allegedly raped on four or five more occasions in a room adjacent to the mosque’s veranda and also in classrooms, the FIR read.