8-year-old boy is youngest person charged with blasphemy in Pakistan

An 8-year-old Hindu boy has become the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in Pakistan after he intentionally urinated in the library of an Islamic religious school.

The boy is now being held in protective custody and his family is in hiding, the Guardian reported. The child — whom the Guardian did not name — allegedly urinated on a carpet in the library of a madrassa, where religious books were kept.