Study finds 1300 child sexual abuse cases in last 6 months.

More details have begun to emerge about the scale of child sexual abuse in Pakistan as the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Sahil shares its findings with the media.

The reports state as many as 1300 children have had to face sexual abuse of some kind in the last six months in Pakistan.

The report by the NGO specifically took into consideration the incidents of sexual violence against children between January and June this year and concluded that the alarmingly high 1,304 cases had been reported during the mentioned period.

It went on to add that as many as 729 girls and 575 boys suffered sexual abuse of some kind between Jan-Jun 2019.

652 of the cases reported were from within Punjab, 458 in Sindh, 32 in Balochistan, and 51 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Meanwhile, reports of sexual abuse pertaining to underage children amounted to 90 in Islamabad, 18 in Azad Kashmir and 3 in Gilgit-Baltistan.

The report further mentioned that as many as 50 children became victims of sexual abuse in Lahore alone.

It was also revealed that...