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Its important to know the Cultural background & mindset responsible for so many #PakistaniGroomingGangs . To understand the psychology of these child rapists I have compiled this thread .... voanews.com/south-central-…

The offender in that case was Mohammed Hanif Khan, an imam from Stoke-on-Trent who was imprisoned for 16 years in March this year for raping a 12-year-old boy and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old.

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"There is a darker, deviant side to you which this trial has exposed. This was a gross breach of trust - parents sending their young, female children to be taught the Quran by you." independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Khan believes many people from Britain's ethnic communities wrongly see organisations such as the police, the health service and social work as "white" and therefore fail to report offences against children. heraldscotland.com/news/12766888.…

‘I started having night terrors, and displaying distress. So then I didn’t want to go to school with him ... And then I told my mum, I’ll tell you a story about why, and I said, well, it’s because he put his fingers in my weewee hole.’ childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/narratives/zah…

“The two incidents, which occurred outside of school hours, involved the elderly man kissing the cheeks of a 16-year-old boy and, on a different occasion, kissing near or on the mouth of a 10-year-old boy.” — Islamic Center of Irving dallasobserver.com/news/irving-po…

In a video statement, a boy who was abused by the Imam said that he was 12 years old since the religious scholar had been sexually abusing him. He added the culprit threatened him with dire consequences if he told anyone. blog.siasat.pk/imam-mosque-la…

The boy was held prisoner for two days and raped repeatedly, until he was so sick the cleric feared he would die and took him to the hospital, AP reported, citing the boy, his relatives, and a doctor.

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Muhammad's body was not alone, however. Alongside him, police found human remains and skeletons, later identified to belong to the three other boys who were kidnapped, raped and murdered between June and September this year. aljazeera.com/indepth/featur…

Sexual abuse is a pervasive and longstanding problem at madrassas in Pakistan, an Associated Press investigation has found. But in a culture where clerics are powerful, it is seldom discussed or even acknowledged in public.

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Zainab, officials said, is the 12th child found raped and murdered in the city within a two-kilometre radius in the last two years.

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The monster on the prowl was arrested after a woman filed a case against him for kidnapping her 13-year-old son, drugging him and then raping him for four days.
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Residents of KhadimGoth in Malir in Karachi caught an adult man Faheem red-handed while she was trying to molest a six year old. The police refused to register a case against him as according to them the father of the child had not lodged a complaint.

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"My child stopped going to school; whenever they saw him, they took him into the fields, in the house," the 35-year-old mother of one victim told CNN. "They raped him for five hours and now it's finally coming into the open."

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“We tie our remaining three children with a rope in the night, just to make sure that they don’t slip away from us,” said Ms. Bibi’s husband, Muhammad Afzal.

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Nearly everyone who has grown up in Pakistan, and this includes men and women, has experienced or knows someone who has experienced child sexual exploitation.

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Corrupt leaders, sexual frustration, gender segregation, honour, fear and poverty all intervene with one another and create an impossible web that street children, on their own cannot escape. pakistanshiddenshame.org/single-post/20…

A recent survey of 1,800 men found that a third believe that not only is raping little boys not a crime, it's not even a bad thing to do.

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“We are being pressured to compromise,” says a man from Punjab who would only give his name as Maqsood. His younger brother says he was sexually assaulted at a madrassa by a cleric who threatened to kill his family if he told. torontosun.com/news/world/mad…

the report found that girls were more vulnerable to child sexual abuse than boys in the age brackets of 0-5 years and 16-18 years while boys were found to be more vulnerable to sexual abuse in the age brackets of 6-10 years and 11-15 years. dawn.com/news/1473645

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A 14-year-old catholic girl was abducted, forcefully converted and married to a Muslim man. The court said, "The marriage was valid because the girl already had her first period."

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A difficult irony for women in Pakistan is that, should a victim speak up about physical or sexual abuse, she is seen as having lost her and her family's dignity. Many rapes go unreported as the victim fears she will become worthless in Pakistani society. theatlantic.com/international/…

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