PESHAWAR: Police have arrested a 35-year-old man on charges of raping a five-year-old girl in Peshawar. The child was brutally assaulted and left semiconscious in a deserted plot in the Wazir Bagh area of Yaktot police precincts Saturday evening. An official from Yaktot police station told The Express Tribune that the child had gone missing while playing outside her home in the afternoon. The girl was found after a frantic search in a vacant plot and was moved to the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), he said. “This girl was bleeding, unable to stand or even talk. We were also informed,” said the police official. Her father is a poor daily wage earner, he added. “Police have arrested a suspect, a 35-year-old man. Initial investigations and evidence suggest that he raped the child,” the official said, adding the accused has been booked under section 376 of the PPC. Meanwhile, a doctor at LRH told The Express Tribune that the child has undergone an emergency operation.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2016.
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