Nine-year-old abducted and raped by neighbours
A nine-year-old girl was gang raped by two of her neighbours on Friday morning.
According to police officials, Shahdra Street No5 resident Mustafa Saleem’s nine-year-old daughter Maryam was raped by two of her neighbours. Mustafa said that he was working when his wife sent word to tell him that their daughter had been abducted. “We asked for a search party and told the police immediately but nothing happened. Even the local mosque made an announcement,” Mustafa said.
Mustafa said that they later discovered that Maryam was playing outside in the courtyard when their neighbour Arsalan and Khaleeq abducted her. The men tied the child up and sexually assaulted her in turns. “We were searching for her all day and the police had registered the case. Everyone was looking for her when that same evening we heard her crying outside the house,” said Maryam’s mother Asiya Bibi.
“We found her lying on the footsteps nearly unconscious,” she said. Asiya and her husband rushed Maryam to the Bahwalpur Victorial Hospital, where doctors said that she was in critical condition. “The child was brutally assaulted and we have sent test samples to the lab to confirm the identities of the rapists,” Dr Ayub Dawar said. Mustafa’s neighbour Raza said that he saw two men take the child on their motorcycle. “I didn’t really think anything of it because I didn’t recognize her at the time,” he said.
Asiyah Bibi filed a report with the Civil Lines Police regarding the rape. Asiyah Bibi said that while she was still conscious her daughter had told her that their neighbours Khalid and Arsalan had taken her on a motorbike to an unrecognized location. “She told me they tied her up and raped her on gunpoint. They gagged her and later threw her outside our house when they heard all the announcements about her,” she said.
Asiyah Bibi said that it took her and her husband several hours to procure an MLC report from the doctors. “We were unable to file a case without the report and we feared that the longer it was delayed the more time the accused would have to escape,” she said. Dr Dawar said that he and his team had successfully operated on Maryam but the girl was still in critical condition. “She has suffered internal injuries and excessive loss of blood. We are trying to do whatever we can but we fear she may not survive,” he said.
Dr Dawar said that Maryam’s blood samples had been sent to the lab for DNA testing. “We understand that the culprits might escape so we have issued an MLC stating that she was definitely gang raped by at least two men. The detailed results will confirm the identities of the accused,” he said. Civil Lines police has registered a case against the accused and are searching for their whereabouts. District Police Officer (DPO) Babar Bakht Qureshi said that police officials had already managed to arrest one of the accused, Arslan, and police were still searching for Khalid.
The names of the victim and her family have been altered to protect her identity.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2011.
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A death sentence to them. Just disgusted at what goes on in Pakistan.
@Ali: There was no media fifteen hundred years ago still these things used to happen then and they are happening now no matter what. It’s a crime, a horrible crime and its not new since the creation of human being. An efficient court system can reduce this crime but cannot abolish it. Sharia cannot punish if you apply in its real sense, you simply cannot prove with four eyewitnesses who have seen it like thread going into a needle hole. It is simply not practical unless you change sharia to this age and need.
@AnisAqeel: Brother Anis if media is not making then who do you think is making?
The never ending "SexAppeal" arousing movies, songs, video songs, tv advertisements and the increasing nudity in terms of dressing in Pakistan is all part of this. How can one deny from all this?
If someone has seen movies of SAW series then they should know what sort of sentences must be announced for such people.
@Ali: Media is not making your illiterate men sex freaks but informing the beasts be controlled. If there is no media, people like you who support sharia will be doing the same everywhere and nobody will be able to prove what the beasts did. Do not bring in sharia to save these beasts. I dare to say if it happens to your wife/daughter/sister or any female relative (God forbid) then shout for sharia and try to prove your case. These horrible crimes do occur anywhere in the world and must be dealt swiftly at least to the comfort of victim's family instead of delaying and providing chances for the culprits to manufacture ways to go free.
They should be publicily executed
It's bad when even one person doing it is hard to believe, let alone managing to get a group behind you to willingly take part. Disturbing. The only way such actions should be justifiable in anyone's mind would require them to repeatedly shut their head in a car door until they can't even remember the alphabet long before it happens.
Media is making our illiterate men sex freaks n beasts. May Allah curse these rapists. They should be stoned as per Sharia.
No way they should be hanged that would be too easy for them. I think first of all they need to publicly humiliated in front of all of their friends and family. And, then they should be publicly stoned to death so no man dare do such a thing to any innocent child.
They should be hanged.