Minor girl raped in Korangi shelter home.

KARACHI -- A minor girl was raped in a Korangi shelter home, police and doctors said on Monday.

The Korangi Industrial Area police had on Sunday night brought a girl, aged around 11-12 years, to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a medical examination.

Police Surgeon Summaiya Syed told Dawn that the medical examination confirmed that the girl was raped. She said that DNA samples had been taken for cross-matching.

Hospital sources said that the girl informed them that she was living in a shelter home in Korangi as her father did not take care of her after the death of her mother.

She said that she was subjected to a sexual assault by a boy, said to be son of the woman owner of the shelter home.

Korangi SSP Sajid Amir Sadozai...

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