ISLAMABAD – A minor girl was allegedly raped in Islamabad’s F-9 park in another incident of violence against woman in federal capital.
Islamabad police claimed to have arrested the boy nominated in the case. An FIR was lodged on the complaint of the victim’s mother who blamed the brother of the child’s friend for sexual assault.
FIR stated that the 12-year-old was taken out of her house in F-11 by one of her friends in the evening of March 16. The child returned home crying at 11 pm and told the family that her friend’s brother took her to F-9 park and raped her.
The incident, reportedly occurring on March 16, was reported to the police on March 18. The FIR implicates both the girl’s friend and her brother.
The mother is a single parent who supports herself and her daughter by working as a maid.
After FIR, the child was taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences for examination.
This is not the first incident of this nature in F-9 park; a similar incident occurred in February last year, resulting in a police encounter with the suspects.