India: 38-year-old man sexually abused 500 children for 12 years
Delhi police have arrested a serial pedophile who sexually abused an estimated 500 children.
Sunil Rastogi mostly targeted children walking alone after school. The 38-year-old did it over the course of the past 12 years.
While in police custody for sexually assaulting two girls, aged 9 and 10 years old, Sunil Rastogi admitted to numerous charges of sexual attacks on children – and claimed to have attempted assaulting many other minors during the 12-year period.
“He seems to be mentally sick as he has some very weird notions,” Deputy Police Commissioner Omvir Singh Bishnoi said in a press conference.
“He is very superstitious and said he came by Sampark Kranti Express only and cancelled his visit if he missed the train,” Bishnoi said.
Rastogi was arrested and jailed for six months in 2006 for raping a minor, according to the Times of India, but his crimes continued unchecked by police years after his release.
Rastogi, 38, lived outside Rudrapur, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, but would regularly make the five-hour train journey to Delhi to commit the sexual attacks, a police statement said.
The father of two daughters has been rearrested. Police will question the girls’ mother to ascertain whether they too were victims of sexual assault.
