[DAWN] A three-and-a-half-year-old boy from the Sokari Karim Khan area of Bannu District was sexually abused on Monday.According to Naseebullah, the father of the victim *A, the boy went missing on Monday morning and returned home in a terrible state a few hours later.
The boy revealed that Sher Qayyum, a resident of the same area, had kidnapped him. Qayyum allegedly took the boy to his house in the same street and sexually assaulted him, Naseebullah quoted the boy a saying.
The boy was later medically examined in which it was confirmed that he has been sexually assaulted. Police have lodged a case against Qayyum and filed an FIR on the complaint of victim's parents.
Rape is notoriously difficult to prosecute in Pakistain. In April 2011, the Supreme Court had upheld the acquittal of five men sentenced to death in Pakistain's most famous rape case, that of Mukhtar Mai.