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Saudi judge sentences pregnant gang-rape victim to 100 lashes | |
2009-03-16 | |
A Saudi judge has ordered a woman should be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was gang-raped, it was claimed last night. The 23-year-old woman, who became pregnant after her ordeal, was reportedly assaulted after accepting a lift from a man. He took her to a house to the east of the city of Jeddah where she was attacked by him and four of his friends throughout the night. She later discovered she was pregnant and made a desperate attempt to get an abortion at the King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces. According to the Saudi Gazette, she eventually 'confessed' to having 'forced intercourse' with her attackers and was brought before a judge at the District Court in Jeddah. He ruled she had committed adultery - despite not even being married - and handed down a year's prison sentence, which she will serve in a prison just outside the city. She is still pregnant and will be flogged once she has had the child. The Saudi Arabian legal system practices a strict form of medieval law. Women have very few rights and are not even allowed to drive. They are also banned from going out in public in the company of men other than male relatives.
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Posted by:Steve White |
#5 When she is released from prison we, the US, should give her and her child a perm visa to the US. We need people like her around to put a little reality into some folks. Its hard to discount it when they are looking you in the eye. |
Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-03-16 18:22 |
#4 Cover the wobble plate on a exercise plate with graters and stand perp upon it. hose occasionally. |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-03-16 16:27 |
#3 Great Danes, much bigger. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-16 13:57 |
#2 PETA will be all over your ass for cruelty to the wolfhounds. Now gang raped by the sabre saw made sex toy mentioned in a article a couple of days ago... |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-03-16 00:49 |
#1 I think the judge should be gang raped by a bunch of Irish Wolfhounds. It would only be fair. |
Posted by: 3dc 2009-03-16 00:29 |