Once again, it’s Dateline Saudi Arabia:
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.
She later discovered she was pregnant and made a desperate attempt to get an abortion at the King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces.
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 guess that last part is the “moderate” part.
I tried to confirm this story and was unable to. Just the one link you provided to a blog. Wouldn’t this have been picked up by the media the way this recent young girl lashing was?
Oops, here’s the link to the hundreds of news stories about the girl I mentioned:
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&cf=all&ncl=1324678485