Three more cases of child abuse surface

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MULTAN/MUZAFFARGARH/SHEIKHUPURA: Three cases of sexual abuse of children surfaced in Multan, Muzaffargarh and Sheikhupura areas while five suspects were arrested in two of the cases on Thursday.

In the first incident, a child was sexually abused in the Mumtazabad area of Multan while police claimed to have arrested three suspects involved in the case and making video of the act.

A resident of Mumtazabad submitted a complaint to police that some people had raped his son and also made a video. The suspects were blackmailing him with the threat to sell the video in the market, he added.

The police, after lodging the case, arrested three of the nominated suspects.

According to an official handout, City Police Officer Azhar Ikram while taking action on the complaint directed the Mumtazabad police to arrest the remaining suspects without delay. He also constituted a police team that was conducting raids to arrest the remaining suspects.

Videos were made in two cases; five suspects arrested

In the second incident, a 12-year-old boy was gang-raped at village Dabbi Shah of Muzaffargarh and police arrested two persons allegedly involved in the crime and recording its footage on mobile phones.

A man told Mahmood Kot police his son went to the village shop on Aug 9 where the two men asked him to accompany them to the nearby fields for picking dates. When he went there, both the suspects held him at knifepoint in the sugarcane field and raped him. He alleged the suspects had uploaded the video to others’ mobile phones besides selling it in the market.

The complainant said the police had delayed registering the case.

Talking to Dawn, District Police Officer Muhammad Awais said the case had been registered and both suspects had been arrested.

In the third incident, a 13-year-old boy was allegedly molested by three people in Pathan Colony in the Ferozewala Police Station area in Sheikhupura district.

The victim was going home when the suspects forcibly took him to a barren place and raped him. They escaped after leaving the boy in an unconscious condition.

Ferozewala police registered a case on the report of the victim’s father and started investigation with no arrest so far.

Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2015

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Chitrali

Aug 14, 2015 08:20am

What's going on, Punjab!

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T I

Aug 14, 2015 08:28am

Horrible acts. I can't think of any punishment that would be enough to punish these so called humans. Raping children, omg, and distributing films of terrible acts.

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Unicorn

Aug 14, 2015 08:58am

Our society has become worse then animals.

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! j

Aug 14, 2015 09:13am

What better day than today to receive this news for all those celebrating independence in the Land of the Pure. Thank you Punjab police, and equal thanks to Pakistan government. And full marks to the head of state. These cases are simply a culmination of your detestable governance, and utter apathy towards the people of Pakistan.

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Jamil

Aug 14, 2015 09:26am

Only d begunnung such cases are are very very wise spread across the country... sad state of affairs really..

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wasid

Aug 14, 2015 09:30am

This is utter disgusting. This is sickness of the mind. The suspects should be sentenced to undergo slow and painful death. Can one imagine what this incident will do to the child's self esteem? My goodness!!

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malemumbai

Aug 14, 2015 09:54am

I must say i simply dont understand you guys. You can come out tigether for charlie hebbzdo incident but no one is bothered about this gravest of gravest incident. The whole country is brain washed. Is it?

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Zak

Aug 14, 2015 10:16am

Time for Shabaz Sharif to resign. He has lost the plot. Punjab police seems worse than the criminals.

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miqbal

Aug 14, 2015 10:21am

hang the culpits without delay if you see vedio proof of culpits

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Ziaurrehman

Aug 14, 2015 10:43am

@Chitrali this is definitely not punjab related problem. Reason ppl criticized punjab govt for kasur was that its police force didn't do anything against the main accused because of him being a pmln mpa.

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JUSTICE

Aug 14, 2015 10:46am

Punjab government is part of problems for lawlessness, punjab police are corrupts they are not interested in arresting criminals.

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Iqbal

Aug 14, 2015 11:23am

This has been reported by the international media since last 4-5 years but no action was taken. I am shocked there is a market for such videos. The market for Child Pron and Abuse Videos !!!

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Dnk

Aug 14, 2015 11:26am

@Chitrali Things like this have been going on in Pakistan for a long time but most people have been ashamed to come out and complain as police have never acted on these complaints. Now that action is being taken more people are coming out with similar stories.

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Jamil

Aug 14, 2015 11:41am

its only atop of the iceberg and for those claiming it to be a punjab problem are outright wrong suchm practices are rampant throughout the country....

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AKB

Aug 14, 2015 11:49am

Keep on unearthing these abuses and you will see what the criminals have been doing with the children. It is a serious social ill, heinous crime and must not be dumped under the carpet.

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Mr M.Tariq

Aug 14, 2015 11:53am

These paedophiles once found and taken to court found guilty must be whipped thoroughly and must pay big compensation to the victims and must be in a prison for lengthy time in order to deter others from this heinous crime

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Red Dawn

Aug 14, 2015 12:47pm

@Chitrali Yeah? You think its only in punjab? Nice way of thinking, exactly the way of thinking, that perpetuates the behaviour of looking away- thinking we are far above such behaviour.

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Red Dawn

Aug 14, 2015 12:52pm

Punjab Police is more responsible for these crimes than criminals because of fostering environment whereby victims dont report to police- thereby providing insularity to such criminals, providing them enabling environment, and providing them incentive to repeat these acts. Now, i belong to punjab. What bring to my mind is when these people babble about these crimes of extortion in karachi. Now, interestingly, they'd be shut up. Or not.

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Adeel

Aug 14, 2015 01:01pm

@Chitrali i am sure its not just in Punjab! its time everybody start to feel the responsibility of actively fighting against this most evil and shameful act going on under the nose of everyone... stop being impotent. raise your voices!!

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naji

Aug 14, 2015 01:16pm

I have never heard such type of horrible, horrible act in my life time, except act of US army in Iraq with Abu-Gharib prisoners. Amazingly what type of species these criminals are? Definitely they are not human being.

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Asif

Aug 14, 2015 01:27pm

These stories have just surfaced but I suspect these are just tip of iceberg.

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Awan

Aug 14, 2015 01:51pm

@Chitrali It is going on around Pakistan. Now atleast in Punjab people have the courage to come forward. So rather than point scoring and pointing at one region kindly appreciate that people are coming forward. My friend is a Psychologist and along with him we have dealt with many cases of child abuse in past. Usually the person feel the guilt at the later age in life. People from every corner Pakistan come forward for the treatment. Cases in conservative regions are more but nobody have the courage there to come forward there. Unfortunately very close relatives, family members and even religious figures and teachers are involved in it as well.

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Yawar

Aug 14, 2015 05:39pm

Why are the maulanas quiet?

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Tanweer Khan

Aug 14, 2015 06:52pm

@Chitrali - Unfortunately, child sexual abuse is happening across the entire country, and is in fact a global problem. What is really required is a full-on campaign from the very top levels to ensure that such incidents don't ever happen again. This requires a complete overhaul of child protection policies in Pakistan, and more importantly a change in attitude of the Pakistani public. Getting people to change their attitude is easier said than done. And as someone that actively works to eradicate the sexual abuse of young girls (www.pagal.org.uk), I can tell you from personal experience that politicians in Pakistan have absolutely no desire to tackle this evil. We have written to them many times over the last few months to address this issue, but no-one has even bothered to reply back. In the UK, even the PM David Cameron commended us for our work. Therein lies the bigger problem.

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