Man held for ‘sexually assaulting’ minor girl

Several cases of child sexual abuse reported in last weeks

LAHORE: Police claimed to have arrested a man after his video of molesting a seven-year-old girl went viral on the social media.

The case has been reported in Hanjarwal. In the video, it could be seen that the accused, identified as Hamza, a shopkeeper by profession, was doing indecent activities with a minor girl.

After the video went viral, police took notice of the incident and arrested the accused. Police said that further investigation is underway.

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Few days back, a similar case was reported in Sabzazar in which a suspect was spotted doing indecent acts with a minor girl on a street. The victim was crossing the road to go to her grandfather’s house.

Reportedly, every other day child sexual abuse cases are reported. Some weeks earlier, Model Town Investigations Police arrested a suspected rickshaw driver involved in sexually assaulting a minor girl in Naseerabad.

.The suspect identified as Fazal Abbas had assaulted the minor F* when she was alone in her house.

A similar case was reported in Sharaqpur, Sheikhupura, where a minor girl had been subjected to sexual violence by her grandfather.

Reportedly, the actual cases are much higher than the ones found from a few reports.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 29^th, 2020.