Mother accused of forcing girl into prostitution
Police have registered a case against a girl’s mother and stepfather after she accused them of forcing her into prostitution.
The case was registered at the Renala Khurd city police station.
The girl stated in her complaint after the police rescued her that her mother had left her at a prostitution den.
She said her stepfather along with her mother had sold her to the operators of the den, where she was forced into prostitution. She alleged that her mother kept offering her for prostitution after taking money from different people.
The complainant said her stepfather had also sexually assaulted her several times.
She said that he had also taken her to Karachi for prostitution, where she was sexually assaulted by several people.
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As soon as she got an opportunity, she escaped from Karachi and reached Renala Khurd tehsil of Okara. The city police recovered her from a prostitution den and registered a case against several accused, including the mother and stepfather, on her complaint.
Local police officials said that started further investigation into the case was underway.
This is not the first incident of prostitution or child sex trafficking in the province.
In January 6 this year, police arrested a father for allegedly selling his minor daughter to another man for Rs500 who then tried to rape her in Kasur.
Reportedly, the man who bought the girl for sexual abuse was arrested by authorities with a case lodged against both the suspects on the complaint of the minor’s mother.
Kasur DPO Zahid Nawaz Marwat formed a special team to nab the suspects.
The victim's mother stated that her husband had called a man to their house and let him sexually abuse their 12-year-old daughter after receiving Rs500.
Police took the victim to hospital for medical examination. They claimed it was an incident of attempted rape. The suspect who paid the amount to the father had earlier been booked in a child abuse case in 2013 but got off scot free.
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Earlier in 2019, the Federal Ombudsman had blamed drugs, prostitution and pornographic movies for the rising incidents of child abuse in Kasur district of Punjab.
According to the Ombudsman report, there had been 272 cases of child abuse, but in only 2.6 per cent cases the culprits were punished.
(The alleged victim’s identity has not been disclosed as a matter of policy)
Published in The Express Tribune, July 11th, 2020.