A 13-year-old Pakistani
girl managed to dig her way out of a shallow grave after being raped and buried
alive by her attackers. A court has ordered an investigation into the incident
after police allegedly refused to pursue the case.
The teenage girl was on her
way to a Koran seminary in the province of Punjab when she was abducted by two
unknown assailants. The men then took her to a remote location and raped her
until she lost consciousness. Believing her to be dead, the attackers then
buried the 13-year-old in a shallow grave.
When the girl regained
consciousness she was forced to dig her way out of the grave. She was later
transferred to a nearby rural health center.
When the victim’s father,
Siddique Mughal, reported the incident to local police, the case was reportedly
ignored, writes the Times of India. This prompted the intervention of the
Lahore high court chief justice's Complaint Cell, who ordered a district and
sessions judge from the Toba Tek Singh district to probe the matter.
In Pakistan many child
abuse cases are ignored by authorities and fall by the wayside. A non-profit
organization, Sahil, that works to stamp out child abuse in Pakistan estimates
that every day more than four children are abused in some way in the country.
In addition the group
believes that cases of child sexual abuse covered by the media increased from
668 in 2002 to 2,788 in 2012.
“We still think these
statistics are just a fraction of what’s going on,” Manizeh Bano, the group’s
executive director told the Washington Post.
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