Photos: 8 y.o boy faces death penalty in Pakistan for 'blasphemy'

An eight-year-old Hindu boy faces the death penalty in Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever charged with blasphemy in the country.

The boy and his family are now being held in protective custody after a Muslim mob attacked and badly damaged a Hindu temple in the conservative town of Bhong in the Rahim Yar Khan district, Punjab, in response to a court granting the child bail. 

The boy, who has not been named, was arrested on charges of intentionally urinating on a carpet in the library of a madrassa, or religious school, that houses religious books last month.