BAHAWALPUR: A six-year-old child was raped by a 27-year-old man in a Rahim Yar Khan C-Division police precinct on Wednesday. Police said they had arrested the suspect.
Muhammad Ahmed*, a resident of Islamia Colony, Rahim Yar Khan, said in his complaint that his daughter had gone out in the street to play with her friends. He said Muhammad Akbar, 27, picked her up from there and took her to a nearby field where he raped her. He left her lying there and fled.
Ahmed said that people in the area heard screaming and crying in the fields and went to investigate. They found the six-year-old crying and took her to Ahmed.
He said that his daughter told him that Akbar had muffled her cries by gagging her. SHO Ghulam Murtaza said they had registered the case on Ahmed’s complaint. He said the victim’s first medical examination report had confirmed that she had been raped.
*All names have been changed to protect privacy
Published in The Express Tribune, July 21st, 2016.