It was locked and empty. Now we cannot help you. Heartsick, the parents went to a police station, but authorities refused to take any action. Within three days, the parents received a certificate in the mail claiming that Naira, who had actively talked about Jesus and the Bible with fellow students at her Catholic school, had converted to Islam. Radical Muslims, a minority in this 97 percent Muslim country of 143 million people, see this law as an invitation to kidnap, rape, and bully Christian women and girls into converting to Islam, then forcing them to marry their Muslim captors.
Radicals then declare that parents and husbands lose all claims on the abducted women and girls.
Through indifference, agreement, or fear, most local police simply go along. It is a phenomenon that we have had to deal with. When local law enforcement refused to help the parents, they brought their case to the police in Lahore, a city of 6 million. The Lahore hierarchy ordered the local officers to register the case, which they did on February 15. Clemence Masih immediately hired a lawyer and filed a petition against the assailants.