An Egyptian Criminal Court gave a 35-year-old man, who had raped a baby girl in March, a death sentence, referring the case to Dar al-Iftaa.
The final verdict is to be issued on June 2.
Being the survivor’s neighbour, the rapist narrated how he took her as she was playing in front of her house in Dakahlia governorate into an uninhabited room, removed her diaper before he raped her, and ran away when he found her bleeding. The year and eight months old girl was transferred to a hospital to get a reconstructive surgery due to major damages in her vagina.
“My daughter can’t utter the words mama and papa yet and all of this has happened to her. My heart is burning and there’s nothing I can do for her,” the mother of the raped child said, according to Egypt Independent.
The deputy of Egypt’s al-Azhar, the largest Muslim beacon had called for anyone found guilty of molesting child to receive the death penalty, he told state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram.
In Egypt, all capital punishment sentences are referred to Dar al-Iftaa, a religious body giving rulings to the masses and consultation for the judiciary.
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