SEXUAL ABUSE CASE
German woman lodges plaint against Jennifer
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Panaji: The German mother, who has alleged that her minor daughter has been raped and sexually abused by the education minister’s son Rohit Monserrate, has now lodged a complaint against Rohit’s mother Jennifer for coming to her house on October 3 to coax her to withdraw the complaint filed by her (German mother).
The German mother had filed a complaint on October 2, alleging, “I know my daughter is being sexually used by a man much elder than her. This person is contacting her on her mobile phone and maybe via the internet.” The 14-year-old girl had dropped out of a Panaji school last year and is now studying in an open school.
The mother, in her latest complaint to the police, alleged that Jennifer had “come to my house on the evening of October 3, 2008 in an attempt to coax me to withdraw the complaint.”
Stating that she was surprised that Jennifer is denying coming to her house, she
said, “I have now found the piece of paper on which Mrs Jennifer Monserrate in her own handwriting had written down her mobile numbers and asked me to call her to settle the issue.” The mother, in her letter to the police on Saturday, has demanded that an offence be registered against Jennifer under Section 195A of the IPC r/w Section 506 of IPC.
When contacted, SP (North) Bosco George admitted that he had received the complaint. “We will investigate it with the existing complaint against Rohit Monserrate and his father.”
The German mother’s counsel Aires Rodrigues alleged, “Jennifer, instead of facing the truth, has tried to malign a fourteen-year-old child. She had first tried to convince the mother along with Rohit’s girlfriend and a teacher from a school in Panaji. However, the mother is determined to take the case to its logical conclusion.”
He added that they would demand that the paper with Jennifer’s handwriting should be sent for handwriting verification.
October 19,2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Sunday, October 19, 2008
German girl gets into public fight with mom
German girl gets into public fight with mom
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Panaji: The 14-year-old German girl allegedy raped by Goa education minister Atanasio Monserrate’s son Rohit on Saturday once again refused to let the police record her statement. She also got into a public fight with her mother.
The police had fixed a meeting at among the girl, child activists and child clinical psychologists at 4 pm at her residence to record her statement. However, the girl refused to give her statement and insisted with her mother that she wanted to go to Panaji to meet a friend, police sources told TOI.
“When the mother disagreed, there was an argument between the two. The girl was then put in a police jeep to be taken to Panaji. But she jumped out, threw her purse at her mother and insisted on taking a bus. The child activists intervened and took her to Panaji in a car, followed by the police vehicle,” police sources said.
SP (North) Bosco George said, “She did have an argument with her mother. We are still waiting for her statement and would like to have her statement as soon as possible.”
Incidentally, the minor has been described by a former teacher as a “quiet, self-contained” girl with a good academic record. “She, however, tends to get distracted easily in class. This has resulted in low grades,” she said.
Aires, Prajal discharged
Panaji: Activist and advocate Aires Rodrigues and historian Prajal Sakhardande, who were attacked by some masked men at a city hotel on Monday night, were discharged from hospital on Saturday. Meanwhile, the police are still to make any breakthrough in the investigations into the case. Although five persons were arrested from Mahabaleswar on Friday, no real link has been established so far. ‘She was a good student in bad company’
Panaji: The German girl allegedly raped by education minister Atanasio Monserrate’s son Rohit is intelligent but would easily get distracted in class, resulting in low grades, according to a former teacher.
“She needs to pull herself up through concentrated study to improve her marks, especially in French, maths and science,” states her progress report for the first term 2007-2008 prepared by her class teacher on October 6, 2007.
She was studying in a popular school in the capital city and had scored excellent marks in German but flunked French, maths and science.
Now she is is doing her Standard X through the National Institute of Open Schooling and will be taking her board exams next year.
Her mother recollects how good her daughter was in Bharatnatyam and how she had won accolades for participation in Marathi and Konkani school plays.
“She was a very good student. But it is all over now. I had tried several times to get her to develop new hobbies and enrolled her in several classes, but failed. That is very sad, especially because she is very talented,” said the mother.
“She got into bad company and somehow things changed. I wanted to be a liberal mother but when I realised what my daughter was going through it was too late,” she said.
Stating that “we are all social beings who like to choose our friends and company”, she said, “I thought her friends were honest. But nobody can see through a person’s heart. Most of them were my daughter’s age and would go out together. I did not find anything abnormal till I saw the SMSs.”
October 19,2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Panaji: The 14-year-old German girl allegedy raped by Goa education minister Atanasio Monserrate’s son Rohit on Saturday once again refused to let the police record her statement. She also got into a public fight with her mother.
The police had fixed a meeting at among the girl, child activists and child clinical psychologists at 4 pm at her residence to record her statement. However, the girl refused to give her statement and insisted with her mother that she wanted to go to Panaji to meet a friend, police sources told TOI.
“When the mother disagreed, there was an argument between the two. The girl was then put in a police jeep to be taken to Panaji. But she jumped out, threw her purse at her mother and insisted on taking a bus. The child activists intervened and took her to Panaji in a car, followed by the police vehicle,” police sources said.
SP (North) Bosco George said, “She did have an argument with her mother. We are still waiting for her statement and would like to have her statement as soon as possible.”
Incidentally, the minor has been described by a former teacher as a “quiet, self-contained” girl with a good academic record. “She, however, tends to get distracted easily in class. This has resulted in low grades,” she said.
Aires, Prajal discharged
Panaji: Activist and advocate Aires Rodrigues and historian Prajal Sakhardande, who were attacked by some masked men at a city hotel on Monday night, were discharged from hospital on Saturday. Meanwhile, the police are still to make any breakthrough in the investigations into the case. Although five persons were arrested from Mahabaleswar on Friday, no real link has been established so far. ‘She was a good student in bad company’
Panaji: The German girl allegedly raped by education minister Atanasio Monserrate’s son Rohit is intelligent but would easily get distracted in class, resulting in low grades, according to a former teacher.
“She needs to pull herself up through concentrated study to improve her marks, especially in French, maths and science,” states her progress report for the first term 2007-2008 prepared by her class teacher on October 6, 2007.
She was studying in a popular school in the capital city and had scored excellent marks in German but flunked French, maths and science.
Now she is is doing her Standard X through the National Institute of Open Schooling and will be taking her board exams next year.
Her mother recollects how good her daughter was in Bharatnatyam and how she had won accolades for participation in Marathi and Konkani school plays.
“She was a very good student. But it is all over now. I had tried several times to get her to develop new hobbies and enrolled her in several classes, but failed. That is very sad, especially because she is very talented,” said the mother.
“She got into bad company and somehow things changed. I wanted to be a liberal mother but when I realised what my daughter was going through it was too late,” she said.
Stating that “we are all social beings who like to choose our friends and company”, she said, “I thought her friends were honest. But nobody can see through a person’s heart. Most of them were my daughter’s age and would go out together. I did not find anything abnormal till I saw the SMSs.”
October 19,2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
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