Five-year-old girl allegedly sexually assaulted in Faisalabad

Girl’s father says that when they reached the suspect’s home, screams were heard from inside

FAISALABAD:  

A five-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted within the Jhang Bazaar police precincts, Express News reported on Tuesday.

The police said that MA* lodged a complaint at the police station in which he stated that his five-year-old daughter, A*, went to a shop to buy sweets. However, she did not return home. The father added that he and other people went looking for the girl after some time.

He stated that during the search, one of the locals told them that he saw the girl going with a suspect named Zeeshan. He mentioned that they immediately rushed to the accused’s home and heard screams coming from inside the house.

The victim’s father revealed that they broke the main gate of the house and went inside. “I saw Zeeshan sexually abusing my daughter.” He said despite his efforts to catch the culprit, he fled the spot from the backdoor.

The father demanded that police arrest the culprit(s) and punish them sternly for committing such a heinous act.

The police registered a case under sections 376, 367A and 511 against the accused and started an investigation.

Earlier, an eight-year-old madrassa student was sexually abused by two influential men in Rahim Yar Khan’s Shedani Sharif area.

A police official said that the boy, a resident of Fazalabad, was on his way to the madrassa when Sohail and Naeem abducted him and took him to a campsite. The accused allegedly sexually assaulted the victim and fled the scene after committing the offence.

A report compiled by NGO Sahil revealed that in 2017, an average of more than nine children were subjected to sexual violence nationwide on a daily basis.

The report paints a distressing portrait of the situation. Statistics presented in the document showed child sexual abuse continued to persist, thus rubbishing government claims of better child protection standards. The document also revealed that children between 6 to 10 and 11 to 15 years of age were the most vulnerable to sexual abuse.

*Names withheld to protect identity