Child raped in Saudi has Down's Syndrome

An 11-year-old girl raped by an Arab chemist in Saudi Arabia is suffering from Down’s syndrome but she managed to instantly identify him and lead to his arrest.

The 41-year-old pharmacist had apparently planned to rape the Arab girl who lives in the same building where he works in the western Saudi town of Makkah.

Police said they arrested the rapist just as he tried to board a flight from the nearby Red Sea port of Jeddah to flee the country after his crime.

Sabq newspaper quoted police as saying the chemist had waited for the girl to return home from the shop before running after her and forcing her into his apartment.

He then raped the girl and left her lying in a pool of blood before packing and hurrying to the Jeddah airport. The girl’s screams attracted her family and other residents who phoned the police, the paper said, identifying the rapist only as “MK.”

“When he was shown in a queue at the police station, the girl instantly recognized him and began to scream and cry again,” it said.