Reporting of child sexual abuse spiked in Kashmir after it enacted a law following the Kathua case There was a more than five-fold rise in the reporting of cases in 2019. Feb 09, 2021 · 09:30 pm People protest against the rape of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua. | Cathal McNaughton/Reuters On July 29, 2020, eight-year-old Irfan* was hurrying back home for lunch after attending midday prayers at a mosque in his village in Shopian district in central Jammu and Kashmir. Moazam*, 17, who lived near the mosque and was known to Irfan, lured him into his house by asking for help to make a bed. Moazam then raped Irfan, his father told