A 15-year-old in the Maldives whose father is accused of repeatedly raping her and killing the resulting baby risks being flogged for “fornication” with another man under the nation’s strict Islamic law, a police source said Monday.

In the course of inquiries into the rape case, investigators say they unearthed evidence of the girl having had consensual sex with another man, which is an offence in the Indian Ocean holiday destination, the source told AFP.

Women, including minors, having consensual sex outside marriage can be charged in the Maldives, where convicts can be publicly flogged. Minors receive the punishment when they reach 18, the age of majority.

The child’s step-father is accused by police of repeatedly raping the girl and fathering a child by her which he subsequently murdered. The girl’s mother has been charged with helping dispose of the infant’s body, police said.

http://naijamayor.com/15-year-old-to-be-flogged-by-court-after-getting-raped-by-her-father/

“We completed the investigation (into the murder of the infant) and gave a report to the prosecutor general’s office,” Maldivian police spokesman Hassan Haneef told AFP by telephone.

He declined to give details saying that Maldivian common law did not allow the discussion of any case involving a minor.

The local Haveeru newspaper quoted an unnamed official from the prosecutor’s office saying that the fornication charge was unrelated to the rape which had been separately dealt with.

The legal system of the Maldives, a nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims known for its coral-fringed islands and sandy beaches, has elements of Islamic Sharia law as well as English common law.

The country carries out the flogging of women despite calls from the UN Human Rights Council to drop the practice.

In September, a Maldivian court ordered a public flogging for a 16-year-old girl who confessed to having pre-marital sex. Her 29-year-old lover was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The gang-rape last month in the Indian capital of a 23-year-old student who subsequently died has also sparked protests over crime against women in neighbouring South Asian nations including Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Dats brutal and uncivilised! Da father shuld get 25 to life and the mom jail sentence as well. And dat law better be changed because it not rite to flog som1 for furnication, dos are matters of the heart and genitalae!

Any man who has sexual intercourse outside marriage is guilty of zina and should be flogged (if a bachelor) or stoned (if married). It is a case of rape, the same applies and the punishment of death is more likely if he did that with arms.

A girl forced to have sex is INNOCENT. This follows from the general islamic principle of being held innocent for things done under coercion. Some countries ask the ra.pi.st to marry the victim. This is against islamic principle of stoning a married person who commits zina and also not profitting from one's misdeed. For instance, a man who kills his relative cannot inherit from the deceased.
Marrying the victim is even wrong on several levels
I can rape a girl I like who has refused to marry me
There will be no love between us
The trauma of ra.pe does not end very quickly. It is actually life long.

What they are doing in Maldives (if true) is therefore wrong Islamically. They need to be advised to stop it
BTW the victim of rape is not allowed to commit suicide but is permitted to (but discouraged) abort the foetus within 40days


"All earthly systems and laws regard this action as abhorrent and impose the strictest penalties on it, except a few states which waive the punishment if the rapist marries his victim! This is indicative of a distorted mind let alone a lack of religious commitment on the part of those who challenge Allaah in making laws. We do not know of any love or compassion that could exist between the aggressor and his victim, especially since the pain of rape cannot be erased with the passage of time – as it is said. Hence many victims of rape have attempted to commit suicide and many of them have succeeded, The failure of these marriages is proven and they are accompanied by nothing but humiliation and suffering for the woman.

The punishment for rape in Islam is same as the punishment for zina, which is stoning if the perpetrator is married, and one hundred lashes and banishment for one year if he is not married.

Some scholars also say that he is required to pay a mahr to the woman.

Imam Maalik (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

In our view the man who rapes a woman, whether she is a virgin or not, if she is a free woman he must pay a “dowry” like that of her peers, and if she is a slave he must pay whatever has been detracted from her value. The punishment is to be carried out on the rapist and there is no punishment for the woman who has been raped, whatever the case. End quote."
http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/72338/RA.PE

NB I put the dot between ra and pe on the link. Anyone wanting to access it must remove the dot