Two Battagram men who blackmailed boy into suicide over rape video arrested
March 26, 2019
BATTAGRAM: Two men who had filmed the sexual assault of a minor boy here in the city a few months ago to harass and blackmail him were arrested Monday night, the district police officer (DPO) of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa district said.
According to DPO Battagram, Abdul Rauf Babar Qaisrani, the boy had committed suicide following persistent harassment and blackmail from the two rapists.
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The two arrestees had recorded raping the boy on video and were taken into police custody following an investigation via scientific methods, Qaisrani added.
He further mentioned one of the two rapists has also confessed to his crimes in the court as well.
Cases of child sexual abuse are not uncommon in Pakistan.
On March 2, 16 suspects were detained in connection with the brutal rape and murder of a minor girl in Karachi.
The real culprit behind the sexual assault and subsequent murder of the nine-year-old will only be ascertained once the DNA reports come in, police had said.
The deceased's family had not named anyone in the first information report (FIR). The incident had taken place a few days earlier in the metropolis' Bin Qasim Town.
