Police said Thursday having arrested a 19 -year -old suspect in relation to the rape and murder of a four -year -old girl, 12 hours after the incident occurred in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Baja district.
The Police officer of the District of Bajaur, Dpo Waqas Rafique, while heading to a press conference together with police officers in his office, said that the child’s body was found in a drain channel a day ago.
“When examining the body, it was clear that she had been murdered,” Rafique said. “As the information came to light, we form special teams under my leadership to investigate the incident.”
According to the Bajaur police chief, a postmortem exam confirmed that the child had been raped before being killed.
“We work throughout the night, using human intelligence and outline the neighborhood,” Rafique explained. “Using this information, we were able to make arrests. After questioning the main suspect, he confessed the crime and described what he did.
“The suspect raped the girl attracting her with the promise of food, and then raped her and strangled her to death,” Rafique said, adding that the police found child pornography on her mobile phone and that the evidence was sent for an analysis for an analysis forensic. The police chief said the suspect was related to the victim.
Suspicious was delayed by supposedly rape
Meanwhile, in Shangla, the police arrested on Thursday one of the two suspects accused of raping an 11 -year -old boy and filming a committed video of him who went viral on WhatsApp, police said.
Shangla Dpo Imran Khan said Dawn.com“One of the two suspects had been arrested and the efforts were underway to arrest the other.”
Police arrested the suspect that he had recorded the video and recovered his mobile phone that was used to film the incident, which occurred in the Alpuri Naredary area. After the video went viral, the police presented a first information report (FIR) on February 17 and initiated an investigation into the case.
According to the FIR, the plaintiff told the Police that he headed home with the suspects when they turned to abuse him sexually while filming his terrible experience.
Police presented the FIR under Section 376 of the Pakistan Criminal Code (Punishment for Violation) and Sections 48 and 53 of the Law on the Protection and Welfare of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection.
The sections include punishment for child pornography, incite a child to supply or borrow, exposure to seduction, encourage the escape of a child, child traffic and sexual abuse.
The data of the non -governmental organization Sahil revealed that a total of 1,630 cases of child abuse throughout the country were reported in the first six months of 2024.
During that period, 862 cases of child sexual abuse, 668 cases of kidnapping, 82 cases of missing children and 18 cases of children’s marriages. In addition, 48 cases of pornography were also recorded after sexual abuse.
