Police say unidentified men seized a 12-year-old girl from her house in Kanjwani village. PHOTO: FILE
As the horrors of child rape reverberated through the country on Saturday, a minor girl was sexually molested by a gang of pedophiles in the industrial district of Faisalabad.
According to the police, unidentified men seized a 12-year-old girl from her house in Kanjwani village, took her to nearby sugarcane fields and gang-raped her. However, when the girl shouted for help, her rapists fled the scene, the police added. She was driven to a local hospital where medics referred her to the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad city due to her precarious condition.
“The victim is in the ICU, but her condition is stable,” Dr Rashid Maqbool, the Medical Superintendent Allied Hospital, told The Express Tribune.
City Police Officer (CPO) Abur Razzaq Cheema formed a police team to launch a manhunt for the alleged rapists. “We have detained some suspects,” said the SHO of Garh police station, where the incident took place.
Provincial Minister for Health, Minority Affairs and Human Rights Khalil Tahir Sindhu visited the Allied Hospital and enquired about the health of the victim. “It’s shocking that the incident occurred a day after the ghastly gang rape in Lahore,” Sindhu told journalists.
He added that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed him to visit Faisalabad and ensure the rape victim received proper medical treatment.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 15th, 2013.
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This is not that these have just started taking place last week. Such incidents happen in a large number daily, with kids of both sexes specially males. People of our country take these incidents as jokes, specially when someone thing like this happens to a minor male, which happens on a very large scale. So it is very important to raise voice against these serious crimes towards the innocence of our country. Every incident should be reported and an action towards it should be taken. If responsible officials don't fulfill there duties then civil society should raise voice against such heinous crimes. We also have to understand that male kids are also human beings and they are being sodomized daily everywhere, people with pen should raise voice against this. We should not be waiting for another such case we should do something about it so that "Pedophiles" know that they can't get away with whatever they do... wake up people please!!!