Minor girl raped in Lodhran

Victim was playing outside the house when accused abducted her

LODHRAN:  

A five-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in Lodhran’s Qutabpur area, Express News reported on Tuesday.

The police said that R* lodged a complaint at the police station in which he stated that his five-year-old daughter was playing outside her home when an unidentified accused abducted her.  He said the culprit took her to a nearby field and assaulted her. The father added that he and other people went looking for the girl and found her in the fields, injured.

The family of the victim immediately shifted her to a local hospital where the medical reports confirmed that the girl had been sexually assaulted.

The father demanded that police arrest the culprit and punish him sternly for committing such a heinous act.

The police registered a case under sections 367 and 377 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.

*Name withheld to protect identity