Christian girl tortured by Muslim master

Sumbal Masih - photo World Vision in Progress

On 14th September, this girl, Sumbal Masih, aged 15 or 16, was working as a maid in the house of one Mr Adeel in Lahore, along with her younger sister Sadaf and cousin Rabiya.  She was watching the TV in the house when Mr Adeel came and beat her with iron rods or pipes, and then took her to the washroom (toilet?) and tortured her terribly.  Her sister, cousin and other servants heard her desperate cries and rushed to try and help but were prevented by Mr Adeel sent them away.  After this the cousin rushed to get Sumbal's parents,  and when they arrived outside along with human rights workers, Mr Adeel and his family claimed that Sumbal had 'run away from the house'.  They also refused to let the younger daughter go to her family.  After two hours the Adeel's allowed the girl's mother in the house.  After the police were called, Mr Adeel let the mother and Sadaf go, but kept making excuses about Sumbal.  The Human Rights group 'World Vision in Progress' has filed a rescue petition for the rescue of minor Sumbal at a Lahore court.

Wilson Chowdhry of the BPCA said :
Yet again we have violence against a teenage Christian maid.  The fact that the family are refusing her mother access is very disturbing.  What are they covering up?  Is it the fact that the girl was murdered, as in a recent case where a senior lawyer in the same city tortured to death a young Christian girl servant?  Is it to try and concoct a story about her condition, or has she been raped and forced to marry and convert as so many young Christian girls are?  Whatever the situation, it can't be good, and we call upon the police and courts to act speedily and thoroughly and without regard to threats or the faith of the perpetrator.  

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Orphan Christian boy found brutally tortured and burned to death

Reports are coming in that on the evening of 19th of August, in Faisalabad, about 100 miles from Lahore, an 11 or 12 year old boy from the Christian colony went missing after leaving his house to go to the local market for food.  He recently lost his father, and the family is very poor.  No demands for ransom were received.  Reports on his name vary - either Sunil Maseeh or Samuel Yaqoob.

After extensive searching his body was found near a drain in the Christian colony, bearing marks of horrific torture, the murder weapon nearby.   His nose, lips and belly had been sliced off, and his family could hardly recognize him because the body was so badly burnt.  23 wounds by a sharp weapon have been identified in the autopsy.  When sending his body for an autopsy, police raised the possibility of sodomy.   The police, and the mother, according to some reports named Asia Bibi (obviously not the same Asia Bibi as the iconic blasphemy law death sentence victim), said that there had been no demands for ransom, nor any accusation of blasphemy.  

Parts of Pakistani culture have a strong homosexual pederast culture, and Christian and other minority boys are especially susceptible to rape and abuse because of the powerlessness of their community and their despised status.  In one case fairly recently, a Christian boy was kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed by a police officer, his body similarly being dumped in a drain.  

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