Assaulted: Boy raped by three in Faisalabad

FAISALABAD: A teenage boy was raped by three men in Chak 128-RB on Sunday. Sahianwala police said Afzal* and two unidentified men raped the 14-year-old boy. Rafiq, an uncle of the boy, told reporters that his nephew was standing outside his house when Afzal invited him to meet his friends. “When the boy went to Afzal’s house, he and his two unidentified accomplices overpowered him and raped him,” he said. “They also told him to keep silent about it,” Rafiq said. The Sahianwala SHO said that police had registered a case against the three suspects and were looking for them. Separately, a six year old boy was raped in Mansoorabad. Mansoorabad police have registered a case.

*Names have been changed to protect identities

Published in The Express Tribune, August 18^th,2014.