Teenage maid ‘raped’ by employer

A fourteen-year-old girl who worked as a maid at her neighbour’s house in Chak No. 466 GB was allegedly raped several times by her employer’s husband, Abrar alias Bari, police said.

The victim was now seven-month pregnant, they said.

Police have registered a case and arrested the accused and started a search for his wife. Meanwhile, three other women were also subjected to the heinous crime in Khurrianwala.

Police said accused Abdul Rameez trespassed into the house of a woman in Sindhu Town, D-Type Colony, lured his target and then raped her at gunpoint.

Later, he allegedly started blackmailing her because he had made indecent videos of her, police said.

They said that accused allegedly warned her that if she told anyone about the rape incident, he would upload the video on social media. Police registered a case under Section 376 of the PPC and arrested the accused. In another case, a woman’s close relative Shahid, who had been living in her house 39 GB on Satiana Road as a guest of hers, raped her hostess.

Police arrested the accused.

In yet another case, accused Mohsin allegedly invited a woman to see him at Jamia Chishtia Chowk under the pretense of helping her get a job in a bank in Hajiabad, police said.

From there Mohsin allegedly took her to an unknown place by telling her that he was taking her to see a bank officer who would interview her for the job, they said.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 18^th, 2022.