15 year old girl gets 100 lashes for getting raped by her father

KenSwee · 27-02-2013 12:07PM #1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21595814

This is truly shocking.
A 15 year old girl has been sentenced to 100 lashes for sexual conduct.
Her "sexual conduct" was being raped by her father, who incidentally killed the baby she had for him.

"Zaima Nasheed, a spokesperson for the juvenile court, said the girl was also ordered to remain under house arrest at a children's home for eight months.
She defended the punishment, saying the girl had willingly committed an act outside of the law.
Officials said she would receive the punishment when she turns 18, unless she requested it earlier."

It beggars belief that this is carried on in so called tourism states.
That's me done with ever visiting that kip.

cournioni · 27-02-2013 12:08PM

Scumbags.

Ush1 · 27-02-2013 12:10PM

Richard Dawkins posted this on his twitter, absolutely unbelievable. Tragic.

27-02-2013 12:12PM

And now the Maldives have joined the list of states that will never see a cent of my tourist money.

The only way to force these places to rethink their more archaic ways is to hit them economically.

floggg · 27-02-2013 12:13PM

KenSwee wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21595814

This is truly shocking.
A 15 year old girl has been sentenced to 100 lashes for sexual conduct.
Her "sexual conduct" was being raped by her father, who incidentally killed the baby she had for him.

"Zaima Nasheed, a spokesperson for the juvenile court, said the girl was also ordered to remain under house arrest at a children's home for eight months.
She defended the punishment, saying the girl had willingly committed an act outside of the law.
Officials said she would receive the punishment when she turns 18, unless she requested it earlier."

It beggars belief that this is carried on in so called tourism states.
That's me done with ever visiting that kip.

Not defending the punishment or existence of such a backwards and barbaric legal system, but the article clearly states that the sexual conduct for which she was convicted wasn't with the step-father.

Presumably she is being punished for sex with a third party (whether consensual or not), which is in itself wrong.

Why is this more unacceptable in a tourist state? Its wrong regardless of whether or not you're likely to ever go there

Kylo Ren · 27-02-2013 12:15PM

Your title is wrong. You must not of read the story. She is not being lashed for being raped by her father, the lashings are for a separate occasion where she had consensual sex.

It's still obviously terrible.

Chucky the tree · 27-02-2013 12:15PM

From the article

Prosecutors said her conviction did not relate to the rape case.

smash · 27-02-2013 12:16PM

"Officials said she would receive the punishment when she turns 18, unless she requested it earlier."

That girl should be taken out of the country and never brought back!

nucker · 27-02-2013 12:17PM

Disgusting, I hate these so called dads

Soups123 · 27-02-2013 12:17PM

floggg wrote: »

Not defending the punishment or existence of such a backwards and barbaric legal system, but the article clearly states that the sexual conduct for which she was convicted wasn't with the step-father.

Presumably she is being punished for sex with a third party (whether consensual or not), which is in itself wrong.

Why is this more unacceptable in a tourist state? Its wrong regardless of whether or not you're likely to ever go there

Maybe they are sex tourists they dont appreaciate the added risks

floggg · 27-02-2013 12:18PM

Candie wrote: »

And now the Maldives have joined the list of states that will never see a cent of my tourist money.

The only way to force these places to rethink their more archaic ways is to hit them economically.

There was tonnes of sanctions against Afghanistan and the Taliban prior to the US invasion but it didn't affect them.

I actually think cultural isolation only allows this sort of backwards thinking to thrive longer, as there is no challenge to this love of thinking.

In fact, isolation probably helped the Taliban maintain their grip as it meant there were no outside influences to undermine or challenge their way of thinking.

27-02-2013 12:19PM

Chucky the tree wrote: »

From the article

Which doesn't mean its a different person, although I suppose it must be.

Can the father be charged with rape, and her with fornication, because all sexual activity outside marriage is illegal in Maldives?

brokenarms · 27-02-2013 12:20PM

Prosecutors said her conviction did not relate to the rape case.

What does this mean?

Did she agree to having sex or was she raped , or is she being punished for having sex underage . With her dad?

Is there any other links to this?
The BBC have been known to twist the hell out of a story.

If a court judged on this punishment then there must be more than meets the eye. Not saying its justice. But the BBC love a bit of drama.

D1stant · 27-02-2013 12:23PM

Well theres some silver lining for global warming. How many glaciers need to melt in order to submerge this sh1thole?

Duggy747 · 27-02-2013 12:24PM

She's not getting 100 lashes for getting raped, change the thread title.

Still, a fairly common and disgusting backwards punishment that prevails in some isolated areas.

Rasmus · 27-02-2013 12:27PM

KenSwee wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21595814

This is truly shocking.
A 15 year old girl has been sentenced to 100 lashes for sexual conduct.
Her "sexual conduct" was being raped by her father, who incidentally killed the baby she had for him.

"Zaima Nasheed, a spokesperson for the juvenile court, said the girl was also ordered to remain under house arrest at a children's home for eight months.
She defended the punishment, saying the girl had willingly committed an act outside of the law.
Officials said she would receive the punishment when she turns 18, unless she requested it earlier."

It beggars belief that this is carried on in so called tourism states.
That's me done with ever visiting that kip.

This is tragic, but you have extrapolated something from the story that is neither wholly correct or accurate. Your thread title is misleading and so is your summary. The article is not even detailed enough for us to make a good assumption.
Saying that, this **** is frightful and I would echo a sentiment above that this is another place I won't be visiting in the future.

Juicyfruit · 27-02-2013 12:29PM

KenSwee wrote: »

This is truly shocking.
A 15 year old girl has been sentenced to 100 lashes for sexual conduct.
Her "sexual conduct" was being raped by her father, who incidentally killed the baby she had for him..

This is completely untrue - did you even read the article.

It clearly states it is for a separate incident.

27-02-2013 12:29PM

floggg wrote: »

There was tonnes of sanctions against Afghanistan and the Taliban prior to the US invasion but it didn't affect them.

I actually think cultural isolation only allows this sort of backwards thinking to thrive longer, as there is no challenge to this love of thinking.

In fact, isolation probably helped the Taliban maintain their grip as it meant there were no outside influences to undermine or challenge their way of thinking.

Sanctions have also been used quite effectively in other areas of the world though. Does anyone really feel that North Korea shouldn't be sanctioned by the rest of the world? How about China's human rights record? If they want to take their place among the economic giants more visibly, how could sanctions be used to manipulate them into behaving more acceptably by international standards?

In a country utterly dependent on the tourist dollar, people voting with their bookings would cause a catastrophic fall in the national income. The pressure to reverse that fall would very likely result in a more compassionate review of the law if its clear that that's what peoples objection was.

The Taliban operated in a country devastated by war, fuelled with those schooled in the Mullah strongholds of the Pakistani refugee camps. There was no tourist industry to keep sweet, no volumes of foreign trade to protect. One of, if not the largest industry, was illegal anyway, drug production. There isn't much of a working comparison to be made.

Chucky the tree · 27-02-2013 12:40PM

Candie wrote: »

Which doesn't mean its a different person, although I suppose it must be.

Can the father be charged with rape, and her with fornication, because all sexual activity outside marriage is illegal in Maldives?

It's possible the sex was consensual but the father is being charged with statutory rape.

Gee_G · 27-02-2013 12:50PM

Jesus Christ. Absolutely horrendous.

Its kids like her that I would just love to adopt and give her a proper chance in life. Horrible treatment

seamus · 27-02-2013 12:52PM

That's Islam for ye. Loves and respects women, and is very tolerant.

krudler · 27-02-2013 12:57PM

Hope someone gets her out of there before any of this comes about, fcuking animals.

JuliusCaesar · 27-02-2013 01:19PM

seamus wrote: »

That's Islam for ye. Loves and respects women, and is very tolerant.

yes, whereas there's no misogyny here at all.... (especially in After Hours!)

seamus · 27-02-2013 01:20PM

Thankfully after hours doesn't have any say in Irish law...

floggg · 27-02-2013 01:25PM

Candie wrote: »

Sanctions have also been used quite effectively in other areas of the world though. Does anyone really feel that North Korea shouldn't be sanctioned by the rest of the world? How about China's human rights record? If they want to take their place among the economic giants more visibly, how could sanctions be used to manipulate them into behaving more acceptably by international standards?

In a country utterly dependent on the tourist dollar, people voting with their bookings would cause a catastrophic fall in the national income. The pressure to reverse that fall would very likely result in a more compassionate review of the law if its clear that that's what peoples objection was.

The Taliban operated in a country devastated by war, fuelled with those schooled in the Mullah strongholds of the Pakistani refugee camps. There was no tourist industry to keep sweet, no volumes of foreign trade to protect. One of, if not the largest industry, was illegal anyway, drug production. There isn't much of a working comparison to be made.

Sanctions haven't proved successful at all in securing regime change in North Korea. Nor in Iran. Nor in Iraq back in Sadaam's days.

In Iraq however (by way of example) it meant life for ordinary citizens became a lot harder than it might have otherwise been, as they were often denied access to things like medicines/drugs and resulted on higher prices.

In fact, of you look at the way Korea and China block Internet access, regulate media and travel rights (in and out) etc they clearly don't want outside influences and ways of thinking reaching their populations as its easier to control them and restrict rights if you can keep them ignorant and prevent news of abuses or atrocities escaping.

Free access to laptops and the Internet would probably do a lot more to change attitudes than isolation would.

wp_rathead · 27-02-2013 01:33PM

There is no need to over sensationalise OP - the facts are shocking enough on their own merits
Disgusting regime

krudler · 27-02-2013 01:36PM

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

yes, whereas there's no misogyny here at all.... (especially in After Hours!)

Link to instances where women have been whipped this year for having sex in Ireland?

didnt think so.

mackg · 27-02-2013 01:46PM

krudler wrote: »

Link to instances where while women have been whipped this year for while having sex in Ireland?

didnt think so.

This I can do but can't be 100% certain it's Ireland

Seachmall · 27-02-2013 01:48PM

seamus wrote: »

That's Islam for ye. Loves and respects women, and is very tolerant.

These teachings are in the books of all the Abrahamic religions, it's not just Islam.

It's the Islamic people of these particular nations who are at fault for adhering to such a disgusting religious law. At least most Christians read Deuteronomy and think "LOL! NO THANKS!". But that's a progression in people's thinking, not the religion.

tin79 · 27-02-2013 02:09PM

brokenarms wrote: »

Prosecutors said her conviction did not relate to the rape case.

What does this mean?

Did she agree to having sex or was she raped , or is she being punished for having sex underage . With her dad?

Is there any other links to this?
The BBC have been known to twist the hell out of a story.

If a court judged on this punishment then there must be more than meets the eye. Not saying its justice. But the BBC love a bit of drama.

What the fu*k are you smoking? Do you know what the word "coherent" means?

Death and Taxes · 27-02-2013 02:36PM

KenSwee wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21595814

This is truly shocking.
A 15 year old girl has been sentenced to 100 lashes for sexual conduct.
Her "sexual conduct" was being raped by her father, who incidentally killed the baby she had for him.

"Zaima Nasheed, a spokesperson for the juvenile court, said the girl was also ordered to remain under house arrest at a children's home for eight months.
She defended the punishment, saying the girl had willingly committed an act outside of the law.
Officials said she would receive the punishment when she turns 18, unless she requested it earlier."

It beggars belief that this is carried on in so called tourism states.
That's me done with ever visiting that kip.

Absolutley fúking disgusting!
It defies belief!

15 year old girl gets 100 lashes for getting raped by her father

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