Mother and her child kidnapped, gang-raped for two weeks in Pakistan

A mother and her four-year-old daughter were kidnapped and gang-raped for two weeks in Pakistan after attackers lured the woman with false promises of well-paid work.

A man has been arrested for the violent crime which took place in Kashmore, a district in Pakistan’s Sindh province, police said on Tuesday.

According to DailyMail, the culprit has been identified as Rafiq Malik, a resident of Kashmore who owned land there, Pakistani news network Samaa reported, adding that police are questioning Malik after he was remanded in custody for three days.

Police continue to search for his two accomplices.

Neither the woman nor her child have been named but it is believed the mother was a hospital worker from Karachi who had been persuaded to attend to someone after the suspects offered her a large sum of money for the work.

Thereafter, the woman and her daughter were abducted by the group.

‘The suspects kidnapped them and kept them in custody for 15 days,’ Samaa reported a police officer as saying.

The men reportedly raped the woman and her child repeatedly over that time.

The group then released the mother and told her to bring them more women from Karachi. Meanwhile, they kept her daughter, threatening to murder her if the woman did not comply with their demand.

Samaa reported that the woman immediately went to police in Kashmore who were able to find and rescue her daughter.

Meanwhile, the child is reportedly in a critical condition at a hospital in the city of Larkana.