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| Man convicted of adultery with 'wife' |
| 2007-02-21 |
| A court in Doha awarded a year in prison to a 36-year-old Pakistani man for getting a 25-year-old Iranian woman pregnant. The court also ordered that he be lashed 99 times for adultery. However, the judge cleared him of rape charges “for lack of evidence”. The man is currently in jail and the court said the period spent in prison would be deducted from his sentence, the Gulf Times reported on Tuesday. The newspaper did not name the individuals involved. According to the prosecution, the man was employed as a driver in the plaintiff’s house. The plaintiff claimed that in May, 2005, the man lured her daughter to a garage and raped her. The case took a turn in December when the accused’s lawyer told the court that “the couple” was married. The marriage, arranged by the lawyer, created a new situation in the trial. Judge Manon Hamour said the case was unique and went “from bitter hostility to becoming a family”. The judge said the marriage proved that the accused was the “illegitimate” baby’s father. “On the day of the crime, they were not married and therefore, the man cannot escape punishment,” the judge ruled. On the woman’s status, a legal source said that the court could not punish her since no formal complaint was filed against her. The woman gave birth in January 2006. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 CT must be from one of those "alphabet" agencies that we hear lurk around the 'Burg on a regular basis. Second thought: does it not seem as if rapists must be the most incredibly potent males on the planet? It seems like there are an awful lot of reported stories where women raped one time conceive children. That seems more than just unusual given the huge amounts that are spent worldwide by married couples desperately trying to become pregnant. |
| Posted by: mac 2007-02-21 17:16 |
| #8 Where's G****le? She could set us straight! Jeez, you been here that long and you don't have a name? Now that's |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-02-21 12:18 |
| #7 Enough with the Anna Nicole Smith stories already! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-02-21 09:35 |
| #6 lol, CT8956! A "blast from the past" you mention there! |
| Posted by: BA 2007-02-21 09:24 |
| #5 Where's Gentle? She could set us straight! /sarc |
| Posted by: Chiper Threreger8956 2007-02-21 09:23 |
| #4 How the hell could it be adultery if neither party were married (to anyone)? Fornication, yes, but not adultery. |
| Posted by: Spot 2007-02-21 09:11 |
| #3 ShouldnÂ’t the headline read: Another Woman avoids Honor killing through Marriage to Rapist |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-02-21 08:40 |
| #2 Sure, they didn't stone her to death. |
| Posted by: Steve 2007-02-21 08:30 |
| #1 This is in the enlightened "UAE" ? |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-21 06:09 |