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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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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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she was told she would serve a minimum of 17 years.

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


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rubato

Jarlaxle wrote:Yet more proof that Islam is a cancer on the human race and needs to be eradicated as such.

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.

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....

The country carries out the flogging of women despite calls from the UN Human Rights Council to drop the practice.

relied on, christianity's condemnation of jews as christ killers

Crazy doesn't have a religious affiliation.