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28 March 2024

35-year old held over affair with minor girl

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Saudi police arrested a 35-year-old Iranian man on charges of having an affair with a 15-year-old Saudi girl after lying to her that they would marry.

A court in the eastern province of Qatif, where a large number of Shiite Moslems live, will hear the case after the prosecutor submitted evidence that the Iranian had sex with the girl many times.

“Court sources expect him to be tried on adultery charges and that he would be deported after serving a jail term,” Alriyadh daily said.

It quoted the sources as saying the defendant, whose mother is Saudi, has been involved in what they described as a “scandalous and unethical” case.

Baby drowns in water well in Saudi

A 15-month-old Saudi girl drowned after plunging nearly 30 metres inside a water well at her relatives home in the Gulf Kingdom, press reports said on Monday.

The girl was playing in the back garden of her relatives’ house in the northwestern province of Qariat when slipped down after coming close to the edge of the well, Okaz Arabic language daily said.

Civil defence units spent more than hour to pluck the girl out but she was already dead.

Saudis allowed paying traffic fines in batches

Saudi Arabia has allowed its offending drivers to pay their traffic fines in monthly installments following a sharp rise in accumulating fines by many of them.

The Gulf Kingdom, the world’s oil powerhouse, had introduced the installments system for those who pile up large fines before extending it to all offenders.

“The system is no longer confined to those who accumulate big fines…all drivers can now pay their fines in monthly installments,” said Colonel Abdullah al Shahrani, traffic police chief in the western town of Taif.

“There is no fixed monthly sum…those who have fines can set the installment themselves but their traffic record will still include fines until they are all settled,” he was quoted by Saudi newspapers as saying.

Woman accused of extorting teen boy

An Arab woman duped a teen age boy into her house and filmed him naked with her in bed then started to blackmail him into coming to her almost every day.

A friend who noticed that that the 17-year-old boy was losing weight and paling told the boy’s elder brother, who revealed his secret and told the police.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Gulf kingdom’s most influential religious police, sent a female recruit to the woman and warned her to hand over all pictures of the boy or she will face prosecution and trouble with her husband.

“The woman quickly handed the pictures and promised to leave the boy alone,” Ajel Arabic language daily said in a report from Riyadh.