Iraqi teenagers arrested for raping, killing 7-year-old

Iraqi Police has arrested two teenage boys for allegedly raping and killing a seven-year-old boy in Mosul.

Officials found a dead young boy in a toilet corridor of a mosque in the Zummar district of Nineveh province on Saturday where the horrific crime was believed to have been taken place.

The local administrator said police found the body of Shahin Wisam who had gone missing at 11:00pm on Friday.

The teens has admitted to their crime. They said they lured the child to a toilet inside the mosque, raped and then killed him with a rock.

The teenagers were identified by the Police as Ahmed Nassir Al-Jubouri and Omar Shakir Al-Mamari.

Many social media users took to Twitter to express their anger.

“My heart is full of pain; what is the sin he did to deserve this? No one can save this world from this monsters. Nothing describes the pain I feel for this child,” a tweet reads.

According to UNICEF, in Iraq, boys are vulnerable to sexual exploitation as their movements in public spaces are less restricted than girls’. Boys as young as seven have been lured into a situation of sexual exploitation by older boys and men with promises of candy, food or money.