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29 March 2024

Man gets 15 years for raping teen age boy

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A Saudi court sentenced a local man to 15 years in prison for raping an Arab teen age boy a few months after he was freed from jail under a royal pardon after he was convicted or raping another boy, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

The unnamed man had been sentenced to five years for raping a Saudi teen age boy but was freed after serving half his term under a general pardon of thousands of prisoners issued by King Abdullah early this year to mark the success of his surgery in the United States, Sabq said.

A court in the northwestern town of Hail sentenced the rapist to 15 years but he appealed the verdict in the central province of Alqassim.

“The appeals court upheld that sentence because the defendant had done it before and was not deterred by his previous imprisonment,” the paper said.