Eight-year-old boy allegedly raped in Peshawar
Police registered a first information report (FIR) in the case and started an investigation
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PESHAWAR:
An eight-year-old boy was allegedly raped in the Imran Plaza area of Peshawar, officials said on Monday.
The boy’s mother K* told the Paharipura police that a man allegedly forcibly took her son to the roof of a plaza and raped him.
“My eight-year-old son came home crying,” K* told the police, adding, “When I asked what had happened, he told me that S* took him to the roof of Imran Plaza where the accused sodomised him,” she stated in the FIR.
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The woman added that she had married 11-years-ago and had two children. A year ago, she said that she developed differences with her husband and moved into a separate house located in the Pahripura nieghbourhood of the city.
Police registered a first information report (FIR) in the case and started an investigation. The child was subsequently sent for a medical examination.
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Talking to The Express Tribune, rights activist Taimur Kamal said that despite the outcry by rights activists in the aftermath of a child being raped and murdered in Kasur and a similar case in Mardan, child abuse was on the rise across the country since there was no mechanism for child protection in place.
“There is no scientific investigation mechanism and no effective child protection system,” he lamented, adding that the government must focus on the issue to protect children.
*NAME WITHHELD TO PROTECT IDENTITY
Published in The Express Tribune, May 15th, 2018.
An eight-year-old boy was allegedly raped in the Imran Plaza area of Peshawar, officials said on Monday.
The boy’s mother K* told the Paharipura police that a man allegedly forcibly took her son to the roof of a plaza and raped him.
“My eight-year-old son came home crying,” K* told the police, adding, “When I asked what had happened, he told me that S* took him to the roof of Imran Plaza where the accused sodomised him,” she stated in the FIR.
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The woman added that she had married 11-years-ago and had two children. A year ago, she said that she developed differences with her husband and moved into a separate house located in the Pahripura nieghbourhood of the city.
Police registered a first information report (FIR) in the case and started an investigation. The child was subsequently sent for a medical examination.
Lahore minor 'assaulted' by neighbour
Talking to The Express Tribune, rights activist Taimur Kamal said that despite the outcry by rights activists in the aftermath of a child being raped and murdered in Kasur and a similar case in Mardan, child abuse was on the rise across the country since there was no mechanism for child protection in place.
“There is no scientific investigation mechanism and no effective child protection system,” he lamented, adding that the government must focus on the issue to protect children.
*NAME WITHHELD TO PROTECT IDENTITY
Published in The Express Tribune, May 15th, 2018.