JEDDAH – A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year prison term
and 100 lashes for committing adultery and trying to abort the resultant
fetus.
The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on
Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual
intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl
confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he and four
of friends assaulted her all night long.
The girl claimed that she
became pregnant soon after and went to King Fahd Hospital for Armed
Forces in an attempt to carry out an abortion. She was eight weeks’
pregnant then, the hospital confirmed.
According to the ruling, the
woman will be sent to a jail outside Jeddah to spend her time and will
be lashed after delivery of her baby who will take the mother’s last
name. – Okaz/SG __
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