Teenage perpetrators: Deceased five-year-old’s rapists arrested

MANSEHRA: The police arrested two teenagers for allegedly raping and strangling a five-year-old girl in Datta, Mansehra. The accused confessed to their crimes, said police officials on Thursday. According to an FIR registered with the Saddar police, Khalid, the brother of Muhammad Farooq, five-year-old Anam’s father, said his niece went to school on Wednesday but never came home. The family announced she was missing at mosques but her half-clothed, brutalized body was found near the village watercourse later in the afternoon. The police said her remains were taken to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital where the medical officer who conducted the autopsy confirmed Anam had been strangled after being sexually assaulted by two individuals. After the autopsy report was issued to the police late Wednesday evening, relatives and locals blocked the road for over an hour, demanding the arrest of the culprits. In a midnight raid, the police arrested two teenage boys from Datta The accused confessed they had raped Anam in a house and when her condition deteriorated, decided to kill her and leave her remains in a watercourse. Published in The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2014.