QUETTA: Almost all juvenile prisoners are subjected to routine sexual assault and forced to take drugs in Balochistan prisons, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam MPA Sardar Abdur Rehman claimed during an assembly session on Friday.
The lawmaker apprised that older prisoners who have been spent a considerable amount in jail custody are in an influential position to exploit younger prisoners by sexually assaulting them.
The children are in not a position to resist the abuse and a number of them often come out of jails as victims of abuse and drugs, Rehman said.
The speaker of the Balochistan Assembly has summoned a report from the home ministry on the matter in the next session.
Despite a law that declares child sexual abuse a criminal offence, various reports have emerged about young children and teenagers being subjected to sex crimes. A major child abuse scandal surfaced in 2015 when a massive child abuse and extortion scandal in Hussain Khanwala village of Kasur district came to light.
Initial investigation into the scandal, termed to be the country’s biggest in the history, revealed around 400 videos of 280 victims over the last 10 years by an organised gang of over 25 criminals in Hussain Khanwala village.
