ISLAMABAD – More than 10 children were abused in a day during the year 2018across Pakistan, a recent report by the NGO Sahil has revealed.
In its annual report on child sexual abuse titled ‘Cruel Numbers 2018’,Sahil found an alarming total of 3,832 child abuse cases, an 11 per centincrease in the number of reported across the country in 2018. In 2017,there were 3,445 cases of sexual abuse.
Of the total cases reported, statistics showed that 2,094 were boys while1,738 girls were reported abused.
The report adds, the total figure of 3,832 crimes against children includes923 reported cases of abduction, 452 of missing children, 537 cases ofrape, 589 cases of sodomy, 282 of gang sodomy, 345 of attempted rape and130 cases of child marriages.
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63 per cent of cases reported were from Punjab province, 27 per cent fromSindh province, four per cent from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, three per cent fromIslamabad and two per cent from Balochistan respectively.
