Christian girl, 12, kidnapped, beaten until she converted to Islam and raped for eight months

The Daily Mail ^ | October 12, 2011 | Wil Longbottom

[Pinkbell]

A 12-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for eight months in Pakistan by a man who then falsified marriage documents with her, it was claimed today.

The girl was lured on a shopping trip in Lahore by a friend, before she was driven 120 miles to Tandianwalla and raped by the friend's uncle in January this year.

Two days later, she was forced to sign papers consenting to marriage with the man and beaten for refusing to convert from Christianity to Islam.

She was then held against her will for eight months, before managing to escape and contact her family.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has said the rapists have not been arrested because of their affiliation with a militant Muslim organisation - the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.

It claims the police have refused to order a medical check-up on the girl, and have warned her parents that it would be better for them to hand over the girl to her 'legal' husband or a criminal case would be filed against them.

An investigation into the kidnapping found the girl's father reported her disappearance in January and made complaints against her abductors, but police took no action for eight months.

Last month, the girl - who has not been named for legal reasons - called her family from Tandianwalla and told them she had been abducted, but had escaped and was hiding at a bus stop.

The girl's parents travelled to the town and rescued her, before taking her to a local magistrate to give a statement.

The rapists then contacted the police through their religious group and produced a marriage certificate that claimed to show one of them was married to the 12-year-old.

[Pinkbell]

Outrageous! What that poor girl went through is abominable, yet she still stood up for her faith. She was raped and brutalized, and instead of these monsters being locked up, her family has to hide. The police/government is siding with the rapists and honoring their phony marriage certificate born out of lies, coersion, and torture. Why do we support Pakistan at all?

[353FMG]

The quintessence of evil a.k.a the religion of peace.

[Molon Labbie]

“Why do we support Pakistan at all?”

Another question is: “Why are so many Americans insistent that it can’t happen here?”

[ASA Vet]

[I cannot think of a name]

I'm not terribly religious, nor am I very sentimental....

but there are times I almost want to drop to my knees and give thanks for the magnificent 2nd amendment.

[SunkenCiv]

Pakistan. Thanks Pinkbell.

[Truth29]

If the Muslims act like animals they should be put down like animals and in a way that is a clear message to the pack what will happen to them if they don’t change.

[I cannot think of a name]

A wonderful happy accident, our posts happening to show up at nearly the same time, right next to each other. Good form by the way.

[SERKIT]

Wow! It’s getting harder and harder to tell the radical ones from the moderates ones or the “practicing” ones. There IS one thing in common though.....

[pallis]

This is coming to your neighborhood soon.

[allmost]

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[Neidermeyer]

In which part of England is Tandianwalla?

[ravager]

This kind of brutality against girls from minority communities have been going on for decades in Pakistan and organizations such as Human rights watch has rarely ever paid any attention. Girls from Christian, Hindu or Sikhs communities are considered “maal-e-ghaneemat” or war-trophies by Muslim men. Rape of minority girls is viewed as a legitimate way to convert people into Islam and so law enforcement authorities turn a blind eye to such crimes. Abduction, rape, forced conversion to Islam and forced marriage is a “halal” way to bring a minority “kuffar” woman into the fold of Islam and hence it is not considered as a crime.