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Pakistan Police Free Abducted Christian Girl
Posted on: 2010-06-16 16:15:02
By a Worthy News Correspondent reporting from Pakistan

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN -- Pakistani police freed a Christian girl who was kidnapped and raped by five Muslim militants with the apparent support from "religious leaders" (Islamic clergy), but the suspects escaped, her family said Wednesday, June 16.

Cynthia Masih, 14, was abducted May 29 while traveling with another girl in a three-wheeled motorized 'rickshaw' in the city of Rawalpindi near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, explained her father Lazarus Masih.

He said the five suspects, including three alleged drugs dealers, took his daughter to a house in a suburb of Islamabad "where they drugged and raped her". The men -- identified by police as Guddu, Kamran, Waqas, Adil and Ali -- had earlier threatened him and his daughter, Lazarus Masih said.

"They told me that if Cynthia would not be allowed to marry Guddu, they would kill her," he added. "They said they had attended an Islamic Religious Convention where the speaker told them that if they marry a non-Muslim or rape a non- Muslim girl, they would get 70 virgins in heaven."