Police say investigations have commenced into the arrest of an individual suspected to have sexually abused a five year old girl in the Bulathsinhala area.

According to the police, the forty-eight-year-old suspect had fled the area. The five- year-old child and her brother were left at a nearby house while their parents left for work.

They added that the child was abused by a resident in the vicinity on April 20 and went on to note that the child had been admitted to the Kalutara Nagoda Hospital.

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