15 yo Rape Victim Sentenced to 100 Lashes in Maldives
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A Maldives court has sentenced a 15-year-old alleged rape victim to 100 lashes and eight months under house arrest after she admitted having had premarital sex in a separate incident, an official said Wednesday.
During a police probe into allegations that the girl had been raped by her stepfather, investigators uncovered evidence that she had had consensual sex with another man.
"Though she has been sentenced she will be lashed once she turns 18," the court official, who asked not to be named, told AFP. "But the sentence will be enforced immediately if she wants it to be carried out now."
Premarital sex is illegal under the Indian Ocean nation's strict Islamic law.
The child's stepfather faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of rape and a murder charge, after he allegedly killed a baby which resulted from his alleged rape of his stepdaughter.
The premarital sex charge against the teenager has been condemned by rights groups and the government has urged leniency towards the girl, saying she had been traumatized by the repeated rapes by her stepfather.
President Mohamed Waheed's spokesman Masood Imad told AFP that the teenager should be treated as a victim rather than a perpetrator of a crime, but clarified that she should nevertheless "feel the shame" for her offence.
"She is not going to be lashed to cause her pain... rather, it is for her to feel the shame for having engaged in activity forbidden by the religion," Imad said in a phone interview.
It was unclear if the girl's male partner would also be charged with having premarital sex.
Imad added that the government was keen to engage in a dialogue with the national human rights commission and the judiciary to modernize the penal code and limit flogging punishments.
Meenakshi Ganguly, south Asia director for Human Rights Watch, criticized the decision.
"The girl is already a victim and is traumatized, the authorities should be trying to protect her, not punish her," Ganguly told AFP.
Ganguly also urged the Maldives to abolish flogging, calling it "an inhuman, degrading practice... the kind of punishment that should not exist in their law books".
The nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims has been practising a liberal form of Islam for centuries. But in recent years men and women have been prosecuted for sex outside marriage.
Minors are liable for the punishment when they reach 18, the age of majority. The Maldives continues to subject women to flogging despite UN calls to drop the practice.
In September a court in the Maldives ordered the public flogging of a 16-year-old who confessed to premarital sex. Her lover was jailed for 10 years.
Read more: http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticl ... z2M98esvRr
This is just disgusting :fp:
During a police probe into allegations that the girl had been raped by her stepfather, investigators uncovered evidence that she had had consensual sex with another man.
"Though she has been sentenced she will be lashed once she turns 18," the court official, who asked not to be named, told AFP. "But the sentence will be enforced immediately if she wants it to be carried out now."
Premarital sex is illegal under the Indian Ocean nation's strict Islamic law.
The child's stepfather faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of rape and a murder charge, after he allegedly killed a baby which resulted from his alleged rape of his stepdaughter.
The premarital sex charge against the teenager has been condemned by rights groups and the government has urged leniency towards the girl, saying she had been traumatized by the repeated rapes by her stepfather.
President Mohamed Waheed's spokesman Masood Imad told AFP that the teenager should be treated as a victim rather than a perpetrator of a crime, but clarified that she should nevertheless "feel the shame" for her offence.
"She is not going to be lashed to cause her pain... rather, it is for her to feel the shame for having engaged in activity forbidden by the religion," Imad said in a phone interview.
It was unclear if the girl's male partner would also be charged with having premarital sex.
Imad added that the government was keen to engage in a dialogue with the national human rights commission and the judiciary to modernize the penal code and limit flogging punishments.
Meenakshi Ganguly, south Asia director for Human Rights Watch, criticized the decision.
"The girl is already a victim and is traumatized, the authorities should be trying to protect her, not punish her," Ganguly told AFP.
Ganguly also urged the Maldives to abolish flogging, calling it "an inhuman, degrading practice... the kind of punishment that should not exist in their law books".
The nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims has been practising a liberal form of Islam for centuries. But in recent years men and women have been prosecuted for sex outside marriage.
Minors are liable for the punishment when they reach 18, the age of majority. The Maldives continues to subject women to flogging despite UN calls to drop the practice.
In September a court in the Maldives ordered the public flogging of a 16-year-old who confessed to premarital sex. Her lover was jailed for 10 years.
Read more: http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticl ... z2M98esvRr
This is just disgusting :fp:
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I'm just gonna laugh at anything you post. You are sooooooooo clueless I actually feel sorry for you........nah, I'll just laugh!!!!!!!!!! :roll: p
how about give the fucking rapist 100 fucking lashes then throw his useless ass in prison or blow his stupid head off
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really, you don't see that religion influences governemt here in Canada and america? Just ask lgbt community.
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The rapist (ie the stepfather) faces jail.
The boy/man (not specified) with whom she had sex could also face punishment. Sex with adult - another rapist. Sex with a boy of her age - just sex.
This said, it does not diminish in any way the cruel and demeaning nature of the punishment inflicted on this for this young girl (albeit deferred until she is 18).