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The girls father told police that his daughter was playing outside their home in Moza Chayla when their neighbour, 15-year-old Muhammad Akram, took her with him by offering sweets.
He took her far away to a dates farm where he sexually assaulted her.
On hearing the child's cries, villagers reached the scene and saw Akram fleeing.
She was immediately rushed to the Jhang district hospital.
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Doctors said the child's genitals had been severely damaged and that could lead to more medical complications in the future.
“The girl underwent a minor surgery and is under observation,” SHO Umar Hayat Watto told The Express Tribune.
He added that Akram had been arrested and was under a seven-day remand.
Though Akram has confessed to his crime, a sample has been sent for DNA testing to a forensic laboratory in Lahore.
"I cannot imagine that someone could commit such a horrible crime," the girl's father told The Express Tribune.
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