LAHORE: In yet another incident, a 65-year-old priest escaped after raping a 7-year-old girl in Model Colony on independence day.
The Father of the victim Shehzad Masih, a resident of Lahore Model Colony, told the police that on August 14, 2021, he had gone to his hometown of Okara for some urgent work while his wife and children were at home.
“I have two daughters who go to church every evening for tuition,” he said. “On the day of the incident, my youngest daughter Nina went to the house of 65-year-old pastor Barkat Masih, son of Arjun Masih to play there,” he said by adding, “When she did not return for a long time, my wife and eldest daughter, Cynthia, went to Barkat Masih’s house to look for Nina.”
He said that my wife witnessed her youngest daughter and pastor Barkat Masih without clothes while he accused his wife and immediately grabbed his clothes and fled the scene.
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The plaintiff in the FIR claimed that his daughter Nina told me that Pastor Barkat Masih lied and called her into the house and tried to rape her. The father said that accused has misused his daughter.
The accused also raped and tortured his daughter and threatened to kill her, according to the father of the victim. He appealed to the top police officials and the government to arrest the accused as soon as possible and punish him.
Pakistan is the sixth most dangerous country in the world for women, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Karachi-based organization War Against Rape estimated that less than 3 percent of rape cases lead to convictions.
