Cleric Rapes 4-Year-old Girl on Her First Day at School

[Ardemax]

This article is just sickening.

MULTAN: A four-year-old girl was taken to a hospital in Vehari on Thursday after she was sexually assaulted allegedly by the chief cleric on her first day at a seminary. Doctors treating her said that her condition was critical.

Meerapur police said the suspect had been arrested.

The girl’s father, a resident of Nawan Shehr in Mailsi, said in the FIR that he had dropped his daughter at the Shaheedanwala seminary in the neighbourhood.

He said more than 70 children from five nearby villages were enrolled at the seminary.

He said it was the girl’s first day and the chief cleric had asked him to drop her at his office. The father was told that he (cleric) would introduce her to other children.

He said when he went to pick her up at noon, he was told that his daughter was in the chief cleric’s office. The office was locked and the cleric missing. He said he broke into the room and found the child lying unconscious.

She was taken to the district headquarters hospital, where doctors treating her said that her condition was critical. Doctors later said she had undergone a surgery.

Dr Tahira Parveen at the DHQ hospital told The Express Tribune that the girl’s medico-legal examination confirmed rape.
District Police Officer Sadiq Ali Dogar said that a police team arrested the suspect from another seminary where he had been hiding.

He said the suspect had been shifted to an undisclosed location on account of the neighbours’ threats of violence. He said two other clerics from the madrassa were also reported to have gone missing after the incident.

Residents of the area staged a protest demonstration and announced a boycott of all seminaries.

Pakistan’s shame
While the New Delhi gang rape case has resulted in outrage that has spilled into the streets across the border, the plight of women who have faced rape and sexual assault in Pakistan has been largely confined to formulaic articles in the press, slow-moving cases in the courts, and frequent dropped charges due to bribes, threats of further violence and family pressure on the victim to avoid further ‘shame’.

In 2012, The Express Tribune covered over 150 reports on cases of rape and their follow-ups across the country, but the actual number of incidents is likely much higher as the stigma of rape, treatment meted out by police officials and low prosecution rates makes this crime largely unreported.

[karter]

Went to a Pakistani site to read this news and one of the comments said that the parents should've been more careful

Once again, protecting who's wrong and shaming the victim, same old Pakistan

[Chipmunks]

Sick *REMOVED* someone should *REMOVED* !

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[Ardemax]

Went to a Pakistani site to read this news and one of the comments said that the parents should've been more careful

Once again, protecting who's wrong and shaming the victim, same old Pakistan

They've come a long way from what they were, it's just getting out of this shameful act

Sick REMOVED someone should REMOVED!

It's hard to do that when there is so much corruption/injustice in the entire country

[Cerys]

Wow that's just... ugh.
How messed up do you have to be in the head to do that to a little girl..

[Rachel]

There are crazy people in this society. Most of the time the suspects gets away with it which it is wrong!!

[AgnesIO]

The problem with Pakistan, as karter said, is that they refuse to accept the flaws of many of their people. Blaming the parents in this instance, trying to protect the Taliban in other instances. Pakistan has so many issues that they need to stand up and accept are there, are stop trying to pull the wool over their OWN eyes,

[-Moniquee.]

This is disgusting!
A lot of people would actually get away with this too and I bet it happens quite frequently and we don't hear about it.

[GoldenMerc]

How disgusting!