Sexual Assault: Eight-year-old accuses teacher

MUZAFFARGARH: An eight-year-old girl, found lying unconscious at her madrassa, accused that she had been sexually assaulted by her teacher on Tuesday. The teacher, Maulvi Basit, was caught by the area residents and handed over to the Sakhi Shahid police’s custody.  The girl is under treatment at Nishter Hospital. She told her mother that Basit asked her to stay back after the class time was over and allegedly tried to sexually assault her. The doctors who treated her said that they could only establish if the rape occurred or not once the medical examination report was available.



Published in The Express Tribune, April 20^th, 2011.