Rana Husseini; 30/10/08
The Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a 40-year-old man to death after convicting him of raping a minor in an Amman neighbourhood. The defendant stood motionless and did not utter a word as presiding Judge Mohammad Ibrahim read out the verdict in court. The defendant was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl nine times over a one-month period in January of this year. The court said the defendant, a refrigerator repairman, saw the girl when he went to work on her grandmother’s fridge, according to court papers. The defendant asked the victim to come home with him so he could “introduce her to his mother, because she knew some men who were interested in getting married”.
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