The mother said lapses by the school allowed her child to be assaulted twice by the staffer on school premises

Parents protesting outside the Cambridge school compound in Noida

Parents of students enrolled at Cambridge school have been peacefully protesting outside the institution after a three-year-old child was assaulted by a school staffer on the premises.

A parent-teacher meeting scheduled today was cancelled as the school was not willing to answer questions about the incident and the safety of their children, a parent told The Times of India.

The mother of the child has placed blame for the incident on lapses by the management as well who dismissed the students complaints which led to the predator targeting the child twice.

The girls parents have also written an open letter to the media, asking for help in demanding justice for their daughter.

On October 4, the child was escorted to a locked medical room in the school and sexually assaulted by a housekeeping staffer, the mother told The Times of India.

When another staffer entered after hearing the child scream, he then leapt out a window and escaped. The child was taken to a teacher, who upon listening to the incident, assessed that this was the result of the child seeing inappropriate videos online.

When the child refused to go to school citing pain in her private parts, she was taken to a doctor who informed the mother she had been sexually assaulted.

After counselling, the child revealed that the ‘khana bhaiya’ as he was known had poked her private parts with a stick and that this was the second time this had happened, the first time being on the school playground.

When she had informed a teacher, she had been told “ghar par mat batana” (don’t talk about this at home). The mother confronted the teacher who dismissed the incident once again, after which the parent went to the police and registered an FIR on October 9.

The girl was questioned by the Child Welfare Committee and managed to identify the 30-year-old predator from Nithari village, who was subsequently arrested and charged under BNS section 65(2) (rape of a woman under 12 years) and relevant sections of the POCSO act, reported The Times of India.

The CWC also served notice to the school and its principal who claimed they were not aware of this incident and that the parents hadn’t addressed this with them.

During their investigation, police confirmed that the girl’s class teacher and the school’s security supervisor were aware of the assault but failed to report it to authorities. They were arrested on Thursday and charged with concealment of a crime, reported India Today.