11-year-old Kurdish girls: Avan Haji and
Havin Hasan
File photos of the main offender and his
young victims. Photo: Rudaw.
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/240820152]
Parliamentary
panel approves death penalty, life imprisonment for child rapists
Published: November 3, 2015
ISLAMABAD: In what will be a historic
legislation, a parliamentary panel approved on Tuesday life imprisonment or
death penalty for a child’s rapist.
“Whosoever
commits an offence under sub-section (1) of section 376 against a woman when
she is under 14 years of age shall be punished with imprisonment for life or
death,” a source quoting the amended clauses of the Pakistan Penal Code 1860
told The Express Tribune.
The
bill, which has been approved by the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on
Interior, will now be sent to the National Assembly for approval. “It’s a historic legislation which will prevent children
from rapists,” said MNA Shaista Perverz, who moved the bill.
The
number of cases of rape reported each year in Pakistan run into some thousands.
Very few, however, ever reach their logical conclusion.
In
November last year, the interior ministry had told the Senate that an alarming
14,583 rape cases had been registered in the country over the last five years.
Punjab,
which accounted for 12,795 of the cases, saw convictions in just 949 cases. Of
the 90 rape cases reported in the federal capital, there was conviction in only
one case.
In
August, a gang of 20 to 25 men had filmed as many as 400 videos of sexual abuse
involving at least 280 children belonging to Hussain Khan Wala village in
Kasur, Punjab. As the country’s biggest child pornography scandal went viral on
social media it prompted country-wide outrage while the law enforces sprang
into action to defend themselves and to downplay the sickening child abuse
expose.
Last
month, a report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the scandal
revealed that as many as 239 children were sexually abused and 31 cases had
been registered. Activists condemning the Kasur child abuse case have demanded
that the case be in tried in military court and that the real culprits behind
it be arrested.
11-year-old Kurdish girls: Avan Haji and
Havin Hasan
File photos of the main offender and his
young victims. Photo: Rudaw.
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/240820152]
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