In twisted turn of events, a 15-year-old girl in the Maldives who was raped repeatedly by her stepfather will be publicly flogged for having sex outside of marriage.
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Under strict Islamic law, sex outside of marriage is considered fornication. The country carries out the flogging of women despite calls from the UN Human Rights Council to drop the practice.
The local Haveeru newspaper quoted an unnamed official from the prosecutor’s office, saying that the fornication charge was unrelated to the rape that had been separately dealt with.
The rape also resulted in a baby by the father, which he is being charged for killing. Her mother is being charged with helping dispose of the infant’s body.
Details of the parents’ charges haven’t been specified, but it appears that no charges will be held against the father for the rape.
“We completed the investigation (into the murder of the infant) and gave a report to the prosecutor general’s office,” Maldivian police spokesman Hassan Haneef told AFP by telephone.
In the course of inquiries into the rape case, investigators say they unearthed evidence of the girl having had consensual sex with another man, which is an offence in the Indian Ocean holiday destination, the source told AFP.
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Women who are found to have consensual sex outside of marriage can be charged in the Maldives and publicly flogged.
In the wake of the Ohio rape case and the gang-rape case in India, this sad story is just another indication that the sexual offense against women is widely acceptable, not just in America…but in the rest of the world as well! We’ve got to stop these crimes.
SOURCE: Huffington Post
