Rape victim receives 101 lashes for becoming pregnant
A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault.
Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor
UK Daily Telegraph
25 Jan 2010
The girl’s father was also fined and warned the family would be branded outcasts from their village if he did not pay.
According to human rights activists, the girl, who was quickly married after the attack, was divorced weeks later after medical tests revealed she was pregnant.
The girl was raped by a 20-year-old villager in Brahmanbaria district in April last year.
Bangladesh’s Daily Star newspaper reported that she was so ashamed following the attack that she did not lodge a complaint.
Her rape emerged after her pregnancy test and Muslim elders in the village issued a fatwa insisting that the girl be kept in isolation until her family agreed to corporal punishment.
Her rapist was pardoned by the elders. She told the newspaper the rapist had “spoiled” her life.
“I want justice,” she said.
January 26th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
And we allow this “religion” to continue? When Christ returns they will not be saved, neither will that poor girl. unless she accepts Christ into her heart. The good thing about this is that somewhere in those 101 lashes she will realise the evil of The Mohoidites and we should hope and pray that there is a mission of The Good Word near by for her to learn of Christ. Maybe that is the solution to paganism, the whip! It may round cruel but we must drive the superstions from those ignorant of The Word and replace them with the bliss of Christs love. Gods love can be pain, properly applied it can open eyes. I found God through it and thousands of others too so why not teach the misguided and misled with it? Our missions shouldn’t spare the rod in case they spoil the child. I know how that sounds but the end times are fast approaching and as Christians we must save as many as possible, God wont save them unless they are thought to save themselves!