Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death in Rape, Murder of Girl, 7

By Allen Cone  

Mohammad Imran Ali was sentenced Saturday to four death sentences in the murder of Zainab Ansari, 7.Photo from family/EPA

UPI -- A Pakistani court sentenced a 24-year-old man Saturday to four death sentences in the raping and killing of a 7-year old girl last month.

The country's special anti-terrorism court in Lahore convicted Mohammad Imran Ali after Zainab Ansari's body was found in a trash dump in Kasur district near Lahore, in Punjab province, on Jan. 9, two days after she disappeared.

Ali, a neighbor of the family, was arrested on Jan. 23.

"I am very thankful to the chief justice; he treated Zainab like his own daughter," Zainab's father Amin Ansari told Al Jazeera.

The child's mother, Nusrat, wants him to die violently.

"I want him hanged where he threw Zainab's body. And he should be stoned. Hanging him is just ordinary for him," Nusrat Amin told Al Jazeera. "Everyone should take part in stoning him. And this thing about four hangings, one hanging, two hangings, what difference does it make? I want him hanged where he killed my girl."

Zainab's family will receive $15,530 from the attacker.

He has 15 days to appeal but Ehtesham Qadir, the public prosecutor, the verdict can't be challenged because Imran has confessed to eight similar attacks.

Two protesters died in rioting demonstrating against the police's delay in finding the killer.

Indian Serial Pedophile with '500 Victims' Arrested by Police

Serial child rapist Sunil Rastogi, 38, is now in police custody in Delhi. © TotalTvNews / YouTube

Delhi police have arrested a serial pedophile who sexually abused an estimated 500 children he mostly targeted walking alone after school over the course of the past 12 years.

While in police custody for sexually assaulting two girls, aged 9 and 10 years old, Sunil Rastogi admitted to the litany of sexual attacks on children – and claimed to have attempted assaulting many other minors during the period.

“He seems to be mentally sick as he has some very weird notions. He is very superstitious and said he came by Sampark Kranti Express only and cancelled his visit if he missed the train,” Deputy Police Commissioner Omvir Singh Bishnoi said in a press conference.

Rastogi was arrested and jailed for six months in 2006 for raping a minor, according to the Times of India, but his crimes continued unchecked by police years after his release.

Unbelievable, 6 months for raping a minor! Then the police didn't bother to check up on him in spite of a rash of rapes of girls of similar age. The Indian police and justice system leaves a lot to be desired.

“How many girls he victimized will be clear once we complete the questioning and verify all his claims,” Omvir Singh said. 

Rastogi, 38, lived outside Rudrapur, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, but would regularly make the five-hour train journey to Delhi to commit the sexual attacks, a police statement said.

"A team led by sub-inspector Sandeep from New Ashok Nagar police station was tasked to track him down thereafter and he was arrested from a hideout near the Kondli village," Omvir Singh said of the police manhunt.

The man is a father of five with two daughters and police will question the girls’ mother to ascertain whether they too were victims of sexual assault.

“During questioning, he admitted to his involvement in various other cases in the area of New Ashok Nagar, Ghaziabad and Rudrapur in Uttarakhand,” the deputy commissioner added, alluding to the fact that the full scope of the investigation has yet to be established.

India is home to one fifth of the world’s children and

has the highest rates of child sexual assault in the world. 

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Rudrapur, India