03/01/2013
Police official Mohammed Yousaf says the doctors alerted the police
after seeing signs of abuse and torture on the girl's body. Later, the
woman confessed to killing her maid with a steel pipe.
SLAMABAD: Police in Lahore have arrested a woman for beating to death
her 10-year-old maid after accusing the girl of stealing a few rupees,
less than a dollar's worth.
The girl died on Thursday, after her employer had brought her to hospital.
Police official Mohammed Yousaf says the doctors alerted the police
after seeing signs of abuse and torture on the girl's body. Later, the
woman confessed to killing her maid with a steel pipe.
Child labor is common in Pakistan, which has no legislation setting a minimum age for work.
Children — mostly from extremely poor and illiterate families — are
commonly employed in households for domestic work and often exposed to
verbal, physical and sexual abuse.
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