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Egypt: Five get death sentence for kidnapping, raping and killing
a 10 y/o girl
Published: November 13, 2021 16:49
Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor
Dubai: An Egyptian court has sentenced five people to death for kidnapping, raping and killing a 10-year-old girl, local media reported.
According to media reports, the court has referred the verdict to the Grand Mufti for approval.
The crime dates back to December 30, 2018, when Dakahlia Police station chief received a report from an Egyptian man stating that his 10-year-old daughter had disappeared on her way back home from a private class.
The girl’s father accused his cousin, “his sister’s ex-husband”, of kidnapping his daughter due to a dispute between him and his sister over a plot of land, which he had transferred its ownership to her before they got divorced. However, she refused to give it up to him following the divorce.
On January 14, 2019, a farmer alerted police after he found a body of a child surrounded by a number of stray dogs. The little girl was also found handcuffed and lying on her face.
The autopsy report revealed that the girl died two days before the body was found, and that the reason of death was suffocation.
The report also confirmed that the girl had been raped many times.
Police investigations concluded that 34-year-old agricultural worker, the victim’s aunt’s husband and his brothers as well as a woman from the same family carried out the crime.
Investigations also revealed that prime suspect was married to victim’s aunt, and he divorced her some time ago. He has been trying recently to force his ex-wife to give up a plot of land, which he registered under her name before the divorce, but the victim’s father stood against his wishes. Therefore, the prime suspect together with his brothers agreed to kidnap the daughter to take revenge on her father and force his sister to give up the land.
Confronted with the evidence, the prime suspect admitted to kidnapping, raping and killing the little girl together with his brothers.
Once again, children pay for the madness of men.
Dakahlia, Egypt
Former youth soccer coach sentenced to 77 years
By Alex Glenn -
15 November 2021 @ 15:500
Former youth soccer coach in Spain’s Malaga sentenced to 77 years in prison.
The former coach has acknowledged the harassment and abuse of 30 children. An agreement has been reached which is said to benefit the minors who will not have to appear at a trial. The coach has been sentenced to 77 years and four months in jail. He will only have to serve 18 years in prison though.
The agreement was reached on Monday, November 15 at a Malaga court. The defendant has seen a reduced sentence since he has a history of being abused as a child.
The defence lawyer, Juan Fernández Ramos, explained how the defendant admitted to the crimes. He said: “It has been taken into account that he has alleged that he has suffered some history of abuse as a child, therefore there is a disorder”.
Compensation requests have been withdrawn but reportedly “the accused has fully committed to pay” the minors a degree of compensation. The compensation total comes to nearly 100,000 euros and each victim will reportedly receive 3,000 euros.
Lawyer Antonio Gómez de la Cruz commented that the defendant had admitted: “everything that was in the case file.” He also highlighted that the agreement avoids “a trial for many minors who had to testify and that would have been very unpleasant”.
He added: “enough time has passed, these minors are in other teams and are trying to lead a normal life, so making them come to remember all that is not the right thing to do”,
“The fact that they have reached an agreement benefits them”.
77 years reduced to 18 in prison! Wow! It's good that the victims will not have to testify in court because it is likely that Spanish courts are not set up to make such testimony anything less than traumatic.
France spending millions to stop teen prostitution
16 Nov, 2021 16:46
The French government has kicked off a €14 million national campaign to tackle underage prostitution and pimping. It comes months after a report found as many as 10,000 youngsters, mostly teen girls, are involved in the sex trade.
The campaign, launched by the Ministry for Solidarity and Health on Monday, is expected to be fully rolled out in 2022. The ministry described the problem as a “growing phenomenon that society can no longer ignore” and about which “too little is known.”
The government programme is expected to “increase awareness” while helping to “inform and provide a better understanding of the phenomenon.” It also aims to help “identify the young people involved” and “prosecute clients and pimps more effectively.”
According to RFI, the prevalence of underage prostitution has increased by as much as 70% over the past five years, with social media believed to be compounding the problem. The public broadcaster noted that the situation had worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic when young people spent more time online.
In July, a working group produced a damning report that found between 7,000 and 10,000 young people were involved in prostitution across the country. The majority are young girls aged between 15 and 17, but a ministry statement noted that the “entry point” into prostitution was increasingly becoming younger at around 14-15 years.
Did I mention, sin is progressive!
“There’s really a normalisation of prostitution of young people because girls say that selling sex is a way of making lots of money easily and that it can help them reach their dream life,” deputy public prosecutor Raphaelle Wach told the news outlet France 24.
In its statement, the ministry noted that many minors did not consider themselves victims and valued the “financial autonomy” and feelings of “belonging to a group” and “regaining control” over their lives.
“These minors are however in danger, both physically and psychologically,” the ministry warned.
“Covid played a considerable role because social networking provided new ways of being able to hook in underage girls very easily,” Geneviève Collas, who runs an NGO fighting human trafficking, told RFI. She added that recruiting minors has been made “easier” with short-term apartment rental apps like Airbnb helping mask the scale of the problem on the streets.
Chemical castration backed for repeat rapists in Pakistan
18 Nov, 2021 14:06
Criminals convicted of multiple cases of rape could face chemical castration in Pakistan as the country's parliament supported new legislation aimed at tackling the rise in sexual offenses there.
The amendments to existing legislation, which allow for speedy conviction and harsher punishments for rapists, have been voted in by the MPs on Wednesday.
They introduce the death penalty or a life sentence for gang rape as well as chemical castration for repeat sex offenders, with the consent of the convict.
Chemical castration was described in the bill as a process through which "a person is rendered incapable of performing sexual intercourse for any period of his life, as may be determined by the court through administration of drugs."
It's planned to establish special courts across the country to make sure that verdicts in sexual assault cases are delivered "expeditiously, preferably within four months." If chemical castration is assigned as a punishment, it "shall be conducted through a notified medical board," according to the new legislation.
Mushtaq Ahmed, a senator for the religious Jamaat-i-Islami party, had earlier denounced the bill as un-Islamic. Ahmed argued that there was no mention of chemical castration in Sharia law and that rapists are to be hanged in public.
By resorting to drugs to reduce the libido of repeat sex offenders, Pakistan joins South Korea, Poland, the Czech Republic and some US states, where chemical castration has been introduced.
The measure was put on the table a year ago by Pakistani President Arif Alvi in response to a vast public outcry over a spike across the country in cases of rape involving both women and children.
Back then, Amnesty International decried chemical castration as a "cruel, inhumane" treatment, advising Islamabad to instead focus on reforming its "flawed" justice system and to ensure justice for the victim.
Local NGO War Against Rape told Reuters last year that less than 3% of sexual assault or rape prosecutions in Pakistan result in a conviction.
So, unless that conviction rate rises dramatically, the change in the law is basically mute.
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