When Rosha Pokharel came across the Kathmandu Post’s report detailing Bodha ‘Basu’ Tripathee’s sexual abuse of students at Lalitpur Madhyamik Vidyalaya, it brought back horrific memories of her own. Rosha was also in the third grade at Lalitpur Madhyamik, nine years old at the time, when a teacher put his hands inside her tunic, rubbed her thighs, and occasionally reached up to her vagina. Only, in her case, the teacher who abused has wasn’t Basu Tripathee. It was a Nepali teacher at the same school.

Rosha, who is 32, now, graduated from Lalitpur Madhyamik in 2003 and works as a data scientist in the United States, but she said the memories of what she went through continue to haunt her.  (The Kathmandu Post)