In Kadinamkulam gang-rape case, the statement of the five-year-old son of the victim will turn decisive.

As heinous crime against the woman was committed in front of her child, the police have invoked POCSO charges against the accused.

The child has given the statement that the men had assaulted her mother and when he tried to resist them, they beat him up. The child has comprehensively narrated the incidents beginning from her father taking him and her mother to the father’s friends’ house and the incidents that happened thereafter. “When we tried to go home we were dragged into an auto and taken to a forest. There, four persons assaulted my mother. When I tried to block one person, he caught my chest and pushed me. When I cried aloud out of pane and fear, they beat on my face,” according to child’s statement.

The police said as the woman’s statement didn’t contradicted the child’s statement and as there is no other witness, the child would be made a witness in the case.