Man to be lashed, jailed for raping teenaged girl

A Saudi court sentenced a 35-year-old Iranian man of a Saudi mother to one year in prison and 100 lashes with the whip and ordered his deportation from the Gulf kingdom after he was convicted of raping a teen age girl many times.

The man denied the rape charges and said he had a relationship with the girl with her consent. But the 15-year-old girl insisted in court she was abducted by the defendant at knife-point before she was raped many times.

“Test showed the girl lost her virginity…with tears in her eyes, she told the judge that she did not have an affair with the defendant and that she was walking near her house when he stopped the car near her and pushed her in after threatening her with a knife,” Sharq Arabic language daily said.

It said the unnamed defendant from the predominantly-Shiite eastern province of Qatif also told the judge he plans to marry the girl.

“But the judge told him the court does not interfere in such a case and it will leave it up to the two concerned parties,” the paper said.

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