More heartwarming news from our BFF in the Middle East:
A Saudi judge has ordered a woman should be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was gang-raped, it was claimed last night.The 23-year-old woman, who became pregnant after her ordeal, was reportedly assaulted after accepting a lift from a man.
He took her to a house to the east of the city of Jeddah where she was attacked by him and four of his friends throughout the night…
According to the Saudi Gazette, she eventually ‘confessed’ to having ‘forced intercourse’ with her attackers and was brought before a judge at the District Court in Jeddah.
He ruled she had committed adultery — despite not even being married — and handed down a year’s prison sentence, which she will serve in a prison just outside the city.
She is still pregnant and will be flogged once she has had the child.
I come from a time and place where men were summarily hanged for such behavior. I honestly believe we are devolving...
Posted by: Ten Bears on February 11, 2009 5:54 PMWe have a lot of guy in our prisons here who would perform admirably over there, maybe we could work out somekind of mutually beneficial swap? Just wondering...,
Posted by: knowdoubt on February 11, 2009 6:05 PM