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Child Abuse

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Pakistan: NGO report reveals 2960 children sexually abused in 2020

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Jun 02, 2021, at 02:46 am

#Pakistan #ChildAbuse

Islamabad: An NGO report has found 2,960 children were sexually abused in Pakistan during the year 2020,

Sahil revealed in its report that out of this number, 2,587 incidents were reported to Police during the year.

Sharing the alarming numbers with the media, the NGO said that 1,510 girls and 1,450 boys became victims of sexual exploitation, reports The News International.

This data brings the number of abused children to more than 8 per day. The reported cases have been categorized as; abduction 673, rape 305, sodomy 459, gang rape 98, gang sodomy 189 whereas, 37 boys and 27 girls were murdered after sexual abuse. There are more horrible incidents in which 7 boys and 3 girls were murdered after gang sodomy and rape, the newspaper reported.

The report further revealed that 345 children were found missing from their homes. 119 cases of early child marriage and 7 of Vani were recorded. The statistics show that out of a total of 2,960, 1,579 cases the abusers had acquaintance with victims or their family. In 289 cases, the strangers emerged as abusers, reported the Pakistani newspaper.

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