A 12-year-old girl was raped in a shelter home in Korangi, Karachi, allegedly by the son of the woman running the shelter home.
According to details, the girl was residing in the shelter home after her mother had passed away and her father refused to take care of her.
Dawn reported that a medical examination confirmed that the girl was subjected to sexual assault.
Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) of the case and arrested the owner of the home. The underage son of the owner accused of raping the girl remains missing.
According to a report by an NGO working on child protection, Sahil, over 12 children were sexually abused daily in Pakistan and as many as 4,253 cases of child sexual abuse were reported in Pakistan in 2022.
Sahil’s report “Cruel Numbers” compiled cases reported from four provinces of Pakistan and included Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), and Gilgit Baltistan (GB).
According to the report, as many as 4,253 cases relating to child sexual abuse, abduction, missing children and child marriages were reported in Pakistan.
Out of the total reported cases, 2,325 victims were girls (55%) and 1,928 (45%) were boys.
2022 saw an increase of 33 per cent when it comes to the cases of child abuse from the previous year.
Earlier, a nine-year-old disabled child was found raped and murdered in Karachi’s Korangi area.
