27 Dec - 3 year old girl raped in Abbottabad

https://arynews.tv/en/minor-girl-raped-and-slayed-in-havelian/

ABBOTABAD: A minor girl has been raped and murdered in Havelian area of Abbotabad district, ARY News reported.

According to police officials, 3-year-old girl, Faryal went out of her home to play with other children and went missing. They said her dead body was found in an isolated place two days after her gone missing on Wednesday.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister has taken notice of the rape-slay incident and directed for immediate arrest of the criminals. He has directed the DIG Hazara Division to submit a report in the incident.

ARY News correspondent Muhammed Ashfaq said police failed to arrest murderers of the girl despite passage of more than 24 hours. Police have arrested several suspects, however residents of the area were very angry over the failure to arrest and punish the key suspect, he added.

Expressing resentment over the tragedy, KP Information Minister Shokat Yousafzai said that the law needed to be made stricter against the people involved in such a grisly felony.

“The government will provide the victim family justice by bringing the culprits to book,” he said.

27 Dec - 9 year old girl raped in Nowshera Pakistan

https://www.dawn.com/news/1454110

The tortured body of a minor girl who had gone missing a day earlier was found in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Nowshera district on Friday.

A post-mortem examination performed on the nine-year-old child's body suggested she was raped before being murdered, District Police Officer Nowshera Mansoor Aman said.

According to police, the girl was reported missing at 10pm on Thursday after she did not return home from a madressah where she was receiving Quranic lessons.

Her body, bearing signs of torture, was found on Friday morning from a graveyard near her house. It was then shifted to a hospital, where a postmortem examination suggested rape and murder.

A first information report has been lodged and a joint investigation team has been constituted to ascertain the facts of the child's death and to trace the culprits, DPO Aman told DawnNewsTV.

Rise in child abuse cases
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A report released by the NGO Sahil had revealed in August that cases of child abuse increased by 32 per cent in the first six months of 2018 compared to the first half of 2017.

Read: More than 12 children abused every day in first half of 2018: report

The report found that a total of 2,322 child abuse cases were reported by newspapers in all four provinces, as well as Islamabad, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. In comparison, 1,764 such incidents were reported from January to June 2017.

One of the authors of the report, Mamtaz Gohar had told Dawn that although child abuse cases were expected to fall in the wake of the Zainab rape and murder case, they had unfortunately increased.

“However, another view is that the Zainab murder case gave victims’ families courage to speak out rather than hide incidents of sexual abuse. The good thing is that, soon after that case, a drastic change has been noticed in the attitude and behaviour of families towards such cases,” he said.

Imran Ali, who was convicted for the rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab in Kasur earlier this year, was executed in October.