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Pakistani rights activists during a protest against a child sex abuse scandal in Islamabad Photo: BK Bangash/AP
On Monday, a court in Kasur ordered five suspects in the case held without bail. Six others also have been arrested in connection to the case.
Haseem Amir, accused by police of being one of the ringleaders in the gang, shouted to journalists from lockup: "We have got nothing to do with it!"
"We have been trapped!" Amir yelled. A lawyer for him and the others arrested could not be immediately reached.
District police Office Rai Baber Saeed told Telegraph that: “All arrested culpritin their statement claim that they were innocent."
"The main accused, Haseem, 25, said he was innocent because none of the films seized by police showed him indulging in any abuse," he said.
"When asked whether he used to film the child abuse, he said he would sit in the classroom where his classmates would commit the crime”.
The allegations have dominated Pakistani newspapers and television stations. Many compared it to the case of Javed Iqbal, a man in Punjab's provincial capital, Lahore, who one day in 1999 confessed to kidnapping, sexually abusing and dissolving the bodies of some 100 children in acid. Families identified their children from scraps of clothing left behind or by the snapshots he took of each of them before their death. Later sentenced to death, Iqbal killed himself in prison in October 2001.
For now, those living in Hussain Khan Wala, a poor farming community, are trying to come to terms with what has happened. Another victim who spoke to the AP said the gang extorted some $7,000 from him over five years while threatening to release a video, forcing him to steal jewelry from his own family.
"It shattered me so badly that I would often walk out of my school. I would miss my classes," the victim said. "I had no idea how to handle all this."
The gang ultimately released the video and his mother saw it. It caused her to finally confide a secret to her son she'd never told anyone: The same gang had raped her years earlier.
"They are beasts," she said.
Sahil, Pakistan’s leading campaign group working against child abuse, says more than 3,500 cases of child molestation were reported in 2014, of which 67% were reported from rural areas.
“Very few are reported because the victims and families are shy to disclose the sexual offence against them because of cultural, social and religious barriers.”
The Sahil report said sex is a taboo subject in the deeply conservative Muslim-majority Pakistan and the unwillingness to discuss it was making it easier for abuse to happen”