ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Saturday directed TV channels to exercise caution while reporting about the Kasur sex abuse scandal.
In a statement issued by Pemra's headquarters in the capital, the regulatory body advised TV channels to report about the scandal in a responsible manner saying, "The faces of the victims and the parents should not be shown and neither should their identities be revealed."
Pemra said in the statement it has asked TV channels not to give graphic details of what happened in the serial child abuse scandal.
The media regulatory body said the "victims have been through enough trauma already and their wounds should not be scratched further by media instead of healing them".
Details of the child sex abuse scandal were reported by local media, with some reports saying that 280 children were molested by a gang, which also made around 400 videos of children, later using them to blackmail families and receiving money from them.
A property dispute allegedly brought the issue to the surface.
While the Punjab government downplayed the scandal, protestors were out on the streets in Kasur, demanding that the culprits, some of whom they say are at large, be apprehend immediately