A 15-year-old in the Maldives whose father is accused of repeatedly raping her and killing the resulting baby risks being flogged for "fornication" with another man under the nation's strict Islamic law, a police source says.
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 said.
Women, including minors, having consensual sex outside marriage can be charged in the Maldives, where convicts can be publicly flogged. Minors receive the punishment when they reach 18, the age of majority.
The child's stepfather is accused by police of repeatedly raping the girl and fathering a child by her which he subsequently murdered. The girl's mother has been charged with helping dispose of the infant's body, police said.
"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.
He declined to give details saying that Maldivian common law did not allow the discussion of any case involving a minor.
The local Haveeru newspaper quoted an unnamed official from the prosecutor's office saying the fornication charge was unrelated to the rape, which had been separately dealt with.
The legal system of the Maldives, a nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims known for its coral-fringed islands and sandy beaches, has elements of Islamic Sharia law as well as English common law.
The country carries out the flogging of women despite calls from the UN Human Rights Council to drop the practice.
In September, a Maldivian court ordered a public flogging for a 16-year-old girl who confessed to having pre-marital sex. Her 29-year-old lover was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The gang-rape last month in the Indian capital of a 23-year-old student who subsequently died has also sparked protests over crime against women in neighbouring South Asian nations including Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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Islam, so sensible.
Islam, so sensible.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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A woman who beat her son to death for failing to learn parts of the Koran by heart and burned his body to destroy the evidence has been jailed for life today.
Sara Ege, 33, dressed in brown, with a matching headscarf, collapsed as the sentence was delivered at Cardiff Crown Court. She had to be helped from the dock as she was told she would serve a minimum of 17 years.
She had been praised as a 'brilliant mother' to seven-year-old Yaseen but was convicted of his murder by a jury at the same court last month.
Sara Ege told a confusing and contradictory series of stories to explain how her son met his death. She began by playing the role of a heart broken parent mourning the tragic death of a much-loved son in a house blaze. When it emerged that Yaseen was dead before the blaze was ever set, investigations began to uncover a history of violent abuse.
Within weeks of his death Ege made a chillingly frank confession detailing the extent of the beatings her son suffered at her hands. She told how she beat Yaseen with such little provocation that she made frequent secret vows with herself to refrain from hurting him. Well intentioned as they may have been, the vows were discarded within a few days and the violent beatings he suffered would restart.
Ege described her son collapsing at home on the day of his death while still murmuring extracts from the Koran.
The jury watched the grim video confession in silence during the trial. Ege herself was excused by the judge and was not present in court.
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Islam, so sensible.
So she could be out when she's 3 years younger than I am....she was told she would serve a minimum of 17 years.
Re: Islam, so sensible.
Yet more proof that Islam is a cancer on the human race and needs to be eradicated as such.
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
Re: Islam, so sensible.
Except we have weekly posts of dumb judicial rulings and other government ridiculosity from here to there, such as the expelling of the girl for her poem and the 6-year finger pointing "weapon".
Re: Islam, so sensible.
This is as much a part of Islam as murdering Joan of Arc for wearing men's clothes was a part of Christianity ... oh, wait.
Sorry
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Sorry
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rubato
Re: Islam, so sensible.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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rubato
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They wanted her dead if it had not been the clothes it would have been something else. I believe she was also accused of being a witch for taking an arrow in the throat and surviving.rubato wrote:This is as much a part of Islam as murdering Joan of Arc for wearing men's clothes was a part of Christianity ... oh, wait.
Sorry
yrs,
rubato
I expected to be placed in an air force combat position such as security police, forward air control, pararescue or E.O.D. I would have liked dog handler. I had heard about the dog Nemo and was highly impressed. “SFB” is sad I didn’t end up in E.O.D.
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Re: Islam, so sensible.
Another comparison might be with the Westboro Baptist Church, or with various Christian would-be "exorcists": with a worldwide population approaching 2 billion followers, Islam (like Christianity) is bound to include a few real nutballs.
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And this leads to crap like this where a woman killed a man because she 'hates Muslims and Hindus'.Jarlaxle wrote:Yet more proof that Islam is a cancer on the human race and needs to be eradicated as such.
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Well, the Westboro cultists, for all their vileness, don't appear to have been physically abusive to anyone, but an analogy between what this woman did and psychotic pseudo-christians that one reads about who have tortured their children to death to "get the devil" out of them would seem to be apt....Another comparison might be with the Westboro Baptist Church, or with various Christian would-be "exorcists": with a worldwide population approaching 2 billion followers, Islam (like Christianity) is bound to include a few real nutballs.
I agree that it would be silly and ignorant to condemn a whole religion for the behavior of a small percentage of nutcases, but what concerns me is the amount of officially sanctioned depravity that goes on in much the contemporary Islamic world...
The post we had here recently where a young woman was being flogged after having been raped by her step father, is just one example...
There are numerous incidents in the Islamic world where women who are forcibly raped are punished while the perpetrators go free...you can be flogged for drinking alcohol; 13 year olds are married off to 60 year old pedophiles...all with the sanction of the state....
For the most part, Christian societies got away from that sort of thing some time ago....
(But as Jimmy Breslin wryly observed a few years ago, Islam is 600 years younger than Christianity, so if you want to understand the dynamics of contemporary Islam, you have to compare it to where Christianity was in the 1300s....)
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Bresiin makes sense; so this is their period of crusades and purges, leading to the inquisition.
As for "officially sanctiioned depravity", that is as much a fault of the civil authorities (to whatever extent they exist) as the religious ones--kind of like our won witch trials which resulted in execution for "casting spells" (as stupid as anything islamic fanatics do), or the holocaust (which, in part at least, was based, or relied on, christianity's condemnation of jews as christ killers). When you have a civil authority willing to do horrible things, and religion (actively or tacitly) cheering them on, you get the idiocy we've seen throughout history.
As for "officially sanctiioned depravity", that is as much a fault of the civil authorities (to whatever extent they exist) as the religious ones--kind of like our won witch trials which resulted in execution for "casting spells" (as stupid as anything islamic fanatics do), or the holocaust (which, in part at least, was based, or relied on, christianity's condemnation of jews as christ killers). When you have a civil authority willing to do horrible things, and religion (actively or tacitly) cheering them on, you get the idiocy we've seen throughout history.
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Or Christian Science parents allowing their children to die while denying basic medical care. Crazy doesn't have a religious affiliation.Lord Jim wrote:Well, the Westboro cultists, for all their vileness, don't appear to have been physically abusive to anyone, but an analogy between what this woman did and psychotic pseudo-christians that one reads about who have tortured their children to death to "get the devil" out of them would seem to be apt....
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We all know how much weight the UN carries.The country carries out the flogging of women despite calls from the UN Human Rights Council to drop the practice.
has anyone listened to them?
We all know now that it was Santa Claus who killed Jesus.relied on, christianity's condemnation of jews as christ killers
you got that right.Crazy doesn't have a religious affiliation.
