Kasur Child Sexual Abuse Case

Abstract

The Kasur child sexual abuse scandal is horrific. 280 children from 2010 to 2014 were forced to have sex while being filmed and 400 movies were leaked out. In a village of Kasur Hussain Khanwala a gang of 25 men who used the hundreds of videos they produced to blackmail the youngsters' parents, according to Latif Ahmed Sara, a lawyer and activist representing the victims. This also indicates the irresponsibility and carelessness of local police and politicians. According to Human Rights Commission these sex tapes were made for commercial purposes. The tapes that were made then used to blackmail the parents of the victims into keeping quiet and into giving money to the paedophilia ring. These tapes were also being sold to locals in the town for Rs 50 and even, according to one report, were being sold to paedophile websites overseas.

Addressing the issue of child sexual abuse in Pakistan: A conceptual analysis

“…In its report, it states that children had been sexually abused in the village Hussain Khan Wala, in Kasur District of the Punjab, since 2010. The Kasur incidents bring back memories of another horrible incident of child abuse and killing, which took place in the provincial capital Lahore (Ali, 2015). The killer, named Javed Iqbal, from Lahore, in 1999 admitted to luring and killing more than one hundred children.…”

Finding Needle in the Haystack: “Kasur’s Bogeyman” Brought to Justice by Geographic Profiling and Mass DNA Screening

“…country, Kasur, a city to south of Lahore, has been in media focus since the infamous child abuse scandal surfaced in Hussain khanwala, a town in Kasur, in 2015 2,3 . The accused in those cases were identifiable because they used to film the barbarous acts.…”