THREE teenagers – two Qatari boys and a Bahraini girl – have been sentenced to two years imprisonment for maintaining ‘illicit relations’.
However, the presiding judge, Abdul Aati al-Asad, has agreed for a retrial in early December after two of the convicts including the woman, opposed the decision.
The woman was hospitalised on February 11 and she claimed that the two men lured her to a remote area where they raped her.
She told the interrogators that the first accused phoned her asking for a meeting. “When I went there, the second accused pushed me inside a car and they drove me to a desert area. After the first man raped me, the second man took me to his house and then to the hospital.”
She confessed that the second accused had a sexual affair with her. The man said that they had been in love for a year and a half.
The first accused said that the woman was the one who asked for the meeting and offered sex for QR4,000. He confessed to the crime but said he did not pay the money.
A forensic report showed that there were no signs of violence on the woman’s body. It also showed that she lost virginity some 12 hours before the test.
“The other injuries appeared on her body were artificial and within her hand's reach,” the report added.
The court said that it is convinced that the woman had consensual sex with the two accused, based on their statements which went in line with the result of the forensic report.
The court said that it sentenced the accused to two-year imprisonment, considering their young age and the fact that they had no criminal record
THREE teenagers – two Qatari boys and a Bahraini girl – have been sentenced to two years imprisonment for maintaining ‘illicit relations’.
However, the presiding judge, Abdul Aati al-Asad, has agreed for a retrial in early December after two of the convicts including the woman, opposed the decision.
The woman was hospitalised on February 11 and she claimed that the two men lured her to a remote area where they raped her.
She told the interrogators that the first accused phoned her asking for a meeting. “When I went there, the second accused pushed me inside a car and they drove me to a desert area. After the first man raped me, the second man took me to his house and then to the hospital.”
She confessed that the second accused had a sexual affair with her. The man said that they had been in love for a year and a half.
The first accused said that the woman was the one who asked for the meeting and offered sex for QR4,000. He confessed to the crime but said he did not pay the money.
A forensic report showed that there were no signs of violence on the woman’s body. It also showed that she lost virginity some 12 hours before the test.
“The other injuries appeared on her body were artificial and within her hand's reach,” the report added.
The court said that it is convinced that the woman had consensual sex with the two accused, based on their statements which went in line with the result of the forensic report.
The court said that it sentenced the accused to two-year imprisonment, considering their young age and the fact that they had no criminal record