The grave digger told police that the cleric initially tried to put on the dress, but on seeing some other men approach, he left his clothes behind and fled. PHOTO: FILE
Residents of Koraywala Colony in Multan caught a prayer leader on Sunday evening for plotting to rape and kill a three-year-old. He was beaten up, stripped and tied to an electricity pole before he was handed over to the Bahauddin Zakariya police. Police said he had confessed to his attempted assault.
The child was taken to a hospital, where she was later reported to be out of danger.
Investigation Officer Sheikh Mukhtar said that the girl and her brother were both students at a seminary in the neighbourhood. He said on Sunday their father had dropped them at the seminary for their daily Quran lessons.
After the lesson, he said, the cleric told her brother to return home saying that the girl had yet to revise her lesson and that he would drop her home in an hour.
When her brother left, the investigation officer said, the cleric drugged the girl and took her to a nearby graveyard, where he dug a hole for her.
He said a grave digger saw the cleric taking his clothes off. He said when he went closer, he saw the child. He said he grabbed the cleric and shouted for help. The grave digger told police that the cleric initially tried to put on the dress, but on seeing some other men approach, he left his clothes behind and fled.
He was caught at Kashmir Square, beaten up and tied to an electricity pole. Later, police were informed and the man was handed over to them.
The girl was taken to Nishtar Hospital emergency, where she was later said to be out of danger.
An FIR was registered with the girl’s father as the complainant. Police said the cleric’s assistant was missing and would be arrested soon.
The investigation officer said the cleric and told police that he had intended to rape the child. He said he had told his assistant to later bury her. He said he had told his assistant to dig a grave for an adult.
Several residents of the area gathered in front of the police station and demanded that the police seal all seminaries in the area. They said only mosques should be allowed to open. They said most of them would stop sending their children to seminaries and mosques. They demanded exemplary punishments for the suspect and his accomplice.
Boy accused of raping sister
Separately, a 16-year-old boy was arrested by Batala Colony police in Faisalabad and sent to district jail for allegedly raping his sister.
The Warispura resident was booked on his mother’s complaint. She told police that she had been away when her son raped his sister. She said some neighbours had rushed to her house on hearing her daughter shout. She said she learnt about it when she returned.
Investigation Officer Arshad Chattha told The Express Tribune that the boy had been sent to district jail for 14 days by a judicial magistrate.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2013.
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Rapist are everywhere. teach your children what rape is and what is inappropriate touching. just dont leave them thinking that a touching is just FINE... allow them understand that the parents will trust them not throw them out
"encourage marriage from puberty age"
@Hummm...., How would that prevent what almost happened to this 3 year old? Marrying a child would only make it legal for her so-called "husband" to rape and possibly kill her. That's not a solution.
So many sick people hide behind a pious guise of being religious. True religion sshould make an individual more conscious - not trapped in rites and rituals and stories of 1400 years ago.
@Ayesha: You obviously have little understanding of sarcasm
@asm123: HAHAHAHA! Best. Comment. Ever. applause
A true muslim would never commit this act. This is a CIA-RAW-Mossad conspiracy against good honest God fearing mullahs. This might also be an attempt to derail the peace talks with the TTP. We should start peace talks with all rapists and child molesters since this is not our war.
Crime against children: Prayer leader confesses to rape-and-murder plot
Moral of the Story- Muslims, including Pious Prayer Leaders, Can and Do such things, to other Muslims.
Remember this the next time you feel like claiming 'Muslims can not to such things'.
Anyone, be it a mullah or someone else, found raping a child or an adult should have his reproductive organs removed. Plain and simple. The object that needs gratification if removed will no longer cause innocent person being hurt in any way shape of form!!!
These animals should be stoned to death for everyone to watch! May Allah protect us and our kids from such haywaans! Ameen! I request everyone to be extra careful in this dump of a country, take care of your kids, don't leave them with people you don't know, better yet don't trust ANYBODY, doesn't matter if it is your daughter or your son, these animals know no limits so just be cautious! Protect your kids to every extent possible.
The concerned cleric should be tied to an electricity pole and fired at. His dead body should remain hanged and let the birds eat his flesh. He deserves no leniency.
State should appoint prayer leaders and only licensed Moulvis should be allowed to lead prayers. Apart from the licensed Moulvis nobody should be allowed to keep beards. Only people with proper qualification and training can keep beards.
All mosques should open during the prayers time and otherwise should be closed for all the activities. If crime is committed by Moulvi then the punishment from him should twice as much of ordinary criminal for the same crime.
Lastly, parents should be held responsible for sending their children to Molvis or doing any other business with Moulvis.
@san: if you mean imported by Saudia?! One of such cases was reported there as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277437/Saudi-celebrity-cleric-raped-murdered-daughter-claimed-injured-doubted-virgin.html
Now everybody must understand the fact behind NOT accepting the DNA tests of these filthy mullahs, they have eaten our social morals, cowards
The last story of siblings is even more disturbing.
@kamil: because that has our liberal criminal sympathizers and humanitarians up in arms with child molestors, rapists, drug dealers, and murderers.
@Teaser: 'Let me share a glimpse from a posh wedding last sunday i was attending.' My apologies. You did not, by any chance, mention this as a reference of an excuse for child rape right? Because it is one vile correlation.
Spot On Shazia Bangash. Media has played its horrific part aswell. We cannot even watch News channels with our families, let alone Entertainment channels, as they show lewd adds and Lewd comedy programs.
@A J Khan: It seems your name does not match with your comments. Are you from Pakistan or from a neighboring country?
@Teaser: you mean to tell me that 3 year old dancing is enticing people?
@Shazia Bangash: I'm sorry but knowing right from wrong as adults has nothing to do with the "advent of cable". Lack of law enforcement and failure to protect our children is what emboldens these pedophiles. Just because PTV never ever went past being nothing more than a propaganda machine didn't mean that pedophiles did not exist or act upon their sickening urges. Ignorance may not always be bliss.
@Shazia Bangash: I know an imam masjid from our villlage who had been raping a boy in mosque for 3 months and he had no electricity in his home. kill the evil not blame technology
Madrissas should be declared as illegal detention centers, children should be freed and provided opportunity to live a life of a child & grow to their full potentials.
More Saudi influence!
@Hussain: I think @Shazia was being sarcastic.
People like him should be CASTRATED.
A fair treatment.......
Pardon me, but I am not surprised to see the reaction from internet philosophers with herd mentality and limited IQ due to googlism.
I would like to ask you all purest of the pure, will you react with the same level of bashing if it happens in a school around you? an english medium high class school? oh, dont tell me it can never happen there... lol
Let me share a glimpse from a posh wedding last sunday i was attending. A girl around 3 years old wearing some indian star plus styled attire dancing and singing "mien tau tanduri murghi hon yaar, katka lay mujhay alchohol say". and her parents with all others clapping and enjoying like anything.
Please, do think before you react. There is a even darker side of every story we read these days.
And the liberal say, we don't need death penalty...
@Usman.. There is nothing wrong in sending child's to Maddrassa.. You can't blame the institute for individual act..
To me the second news is as shocking as the 1st... I guess no one looked at the 2nd thread just below the cleric's one...."Boy accused of raping sister"....
1- Separate institutions for men and women CAN NOT protect children form sexual abuse because is news/reports/statistics are to be believed boys have been raped by men and girls are molested by women.
Parents should protect their children and take whatever means necessary to do that.
2- Any man/woman accused of using religious garb and harming the society should have a stronger and more serious legal penalty. These de-facers of humanity and religion must be dealt with much more strongly than others. This man and all other such religious clerics/prayer imams/spiritual healers/ spiritual leaders/the man who accused a child of blasphemy and all others who have harmed a person (man/woman or child) harm not just one human being, not just that one person's family but the entire country and the society.
Where is the Chief Justice when we need him? Don't take suo motto notice - take a suo motto decision .. if you have to use your powers then set an example!
wanting to rape and kill a 3 year old child is not the reaction a normal person has after watching an "item song" on cable. It is the reaction of a deranged person with psychopathic tendencies who has no fear of any retribution ( from the police or the victims family).
We need this message to go out that there is punishment. Burying this psycho alive in the grave would be a good idea.
@Hussain: Thank you. At least someone here has SOME intelligence.
@Shazia Bangash: 'We never heard such things before the advent of cable. We should ban cable TV for corrupting even our religious leaders.'
There is one another thing very common these days alongside cable.. religiosity. According to your logic, should not religiosity be blamed alongside cable for proliferation of such heinous crimes?
In a fractured society where the prayer leaders are taught and brought up in deplorable living conditions (madrssahs) and have to survive on charity and left overs of the affluent. Such incidents should not come as a surprise. In our society the child considered to be unfit for schooling is sent to madrssahs and the one who's parents cannot afford looking after their lot are also sent for such learning. So the deprived upbringing of such children result in terrorism raw material and sexual crime perpetrators. With no others prospect of future for such madrssahs graduates. I believe the whole society has to be blamed for their wrong doings.
I wish the grave digger should have cut the throat of that animal and buried it in the same hole....
One things is certain.
The furor created by Indian media to rape cases in India has resulted in Pakistan becoming more vocal in their media.
Pakistan has always tried to copy India, good or bad.
But this is good.
I think the skewed X ratio is the cause of many a ills in our society . Please stop killing girl children world wide ( especially in the sub continent ). Many evils will vanish on their own.
How madrissahs and molvies are contributing to defame the religion of peace.
This is just the tip of the iceberg
shazia bangish : Plesae develop some sense. and yes ban MAULVISM .There is no person such a religious leader in our nation, they all are just bunch of hypocrites, fueling inter faith issues . i demand exemplary punishments for these rapists .
Child sexual abuse is always there but its awareness is missing. It must be taught at School level. Parents should also teach kids at home about their safety and protection.
Our society has been taken over by Molvies, criminals and religion traders. Unless we all rise against the crimes, finish the lousy system of justice and throw away the interceders between Allah & his people in the shape of clerics/ Molvies, we will further digress in the quagmire of filth & crimes. Please stop following Mullah and his fairy tales. Do not trust them with the education & care of your children. Take them out of your lives. Reach for mercy of Allah without the ladder of Mullah. That is the way to salvation and that is true spirit of religion. This Mullah should be hanged by anti terrorism court.
Why would a parent put a 3 year old girl into a seminary ? is that the age that one can indocrinate a child?
What folks think happens in madrassahs?
And then we ask why are there Earthquakes ?
@Usman: Maulvis had only cause grief to our nation, nothing else. Read out this news item. So called maulvis are doing whatever they can to bring peace in the country. http://tribune.com.pk/story/611803/militant-violence-clerics-make-impassioned-appeal-for-truce/ However, you can't generalize what few individuals do out of a class of people, otherwise you'll be taking all MBAs of the world as target killers. http://tribune.com.pk/story/611696/no-let-up-in-violence-mba-target-killer-practised-headshots-on-dogs/
@ Shazia Bangash you never heard any such news before cable, because there was no cable to let you know. Now we have two options either to ban cable and let everyone do whatever he does or bring the wrong doings before media for justice.
I hope people realize 'cleric' and 'prayer leader' (or imam) are not the same thing and that an imam actually can be anyone and doesn't hold actual religious authority. Imam, in Arabic, just means to 'be in front of' or 'lead'. Just a clarification.
shazia is right, all these behaviours have increased in proportions due to the easy access to dish, cables and the internet. In addition to this glamour has also contributed towards it. The above in addition to the easily accessible cheap calls have corrupted our teens. These are also seen as resentment by others, causing them to do such heneous crimes.
It is the item songs of indian movies that provoke these acts. Ban them..
We never heard such things before the advent of cable. We should ban cable TV for corrupting even our religious leaders.
@Usman: Sir I agree with you 100%. Parents should open their eyes and stop thinking that mullahs and priests are good babysitters. Regards, M
Bury him alive In that same hole. and let the media televise it so that all these animals who wear the guise of men know what awaits them in this life and the next.
Well done on the residents, that's how it should be handled. Now according to Shariah i suppose we are stoning him to death?? We better be!
Please stop sending children to religious schools especially girls. When will these parents learn some sense? Maulvis had only cause grief to our nation, nothing else.
What's is wrong with Pakistani ? Raping on rise? Are they really ppl who teaches word so god?
well.. what else would one expect from a prayer leader !
Can you ask for some cleric to be exported from Saudi Arabia.
Rape and kill a three year old. The news makes one throw up. Why deosn't anyone demand death penalty for the rapists ??