Reham Khan to establish trauma counselling camp for sex abuse victims in Kasur

KASUR (Staff Report) - Reham Khan, the wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, on Thursday said that she is going to inaugurate a trauma counselling camp for the victims of recent child sex abuse scandal in Kasur.

The announcement was made through a post on micro blogging website Twitter.

Inaugurating Trauma counselling camp for #Kasur victims later this afternoon.

— Reham Khan (@RehamKhan1) August 13, 2015

Meanwhile a five member Joint Investigation Team is investigating into the scandal.

Earlier Punjab’s Child Protection Bureau disclosed country’s largest child pornography ring, in which 400 videos have been confiscated featuring more than 280 children being sexually exploited.

The Nation published the report of organised child sex exploitation, which has shocked the nation.  According to the report, most of the victims were under 14 years of age. In one of the videos a six-year-old boy can be seen forced to perform sexual act, and a 10-year-old schoolgirl who was filmed being molested by a 14-year-old boy.

Thousands of copies of the sexual assault videos are believed to have been sold for Rs. 50 each in Hussain Khanwala village in Kasur district. According to the parents of the children, the gang members were in contact with pedophiles in western countries through Skype and would sell the videos overseas for large amounts of money.

According to our reporter, Shoaib Bhatti, the 3 villages namely Hussain Khanwala, Bagga, and Rohi Nala were under the control of a large child-porn gang that exported their content abroad. They barely sold their content in Pakistan. The whole scheme was being financed by two primary sources: extortion money from the victims and their families, and sales to foreigners over social media and Skype who would pay large amounts to sometimes watch these rapes live. Sales in local area was limited because it did not yield great profits. It is estimated that from extortion alone, they have earned Rupees 80 million.

Our reporter was also able procure a CD containing at least 280 clips of these barbaric acts from an ordinary villager.

District Police Officer (DPO) Kasur, Rai Babar Saeed said Saturday that they have recovered 60 to 70 video clips from which the perpetrators are being identified and action will immediately be taken against them. He further added that child sex abuse scandal is actually a ‘land dispute’ and those allegedly have been affected are exaggerating the facts.

However Punjab Home Minister, Shuja Khanzada, contradicted various statements by police officials in Kasur and confirmed that the incidents have in fact taken place albeit not in the numbers being portrayed in the media.

He went on to say that the case is indeed terrible and shameful, adding that no stone will be left unturned during investigations. He further said that every guilty criminal involved will be brought to justice.

Many others on social media and TV channels have condemned the scandal and urged provincial government to try those behind this under terrorism law.