Hyderabad: Hyderabad commissioner’s west zone task force on Saturday took custody of a woman who was forcing her minor foster daughter into prostitution, and rescued the minor girl.
Police the accused has been identified as a junior artist in the film industry. Her details are being withheld to protect the identity of the minor.
Officials said the junior artist was running a brothel at her residence. The minor girl, whom she raised since childhood, considered the woman her mother. The woman emotionally blackmailed the girl and pushed her into prostitution, police said.
Upon the victim’s refusal, the woman physically tortured her, beating her with a stick and burning her skin with hot metal. She forcibly made the victim dropout from school and chopped her hair.
The west zone team raided the accused’s residence, where prostitution was taking place, and rescued the minor. Officials said necessary legal action will be taken against the accused and her associates.
