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29 March 2024

Rapist of would-be wife gets 10 years, lashes

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A Saudi man who knew a local girl through Facebook told her he was in love with her and wanted to marry her. When she agreed to his request to come and see her at home, she made the mistake of her life.

Just after she opened the door for him, he raped her before filming her in indecent positions so he would extort money from her.

To prevent a scandal, the girl submitted to the man’s repeated demands in the following days before she decided that he had gone too far and it was time to report him.

She told the Gulf Kingdom’s feared religious police, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, who arrested the man.

In court, the judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison, ordered him lashed 1,000 times and fined him SR50,000 (Dh49,500), newspapers said in a report from the Central Saudi town of Buraidah.