A 13 year old girl was stoned to death in Somalia recently and now I can’t get it out of my head. I’m sitting here bitching about shitty fabric stores and complaining about my sister smashing my car and this poor girl…
I read the original report about this a couple of days ago which stated that it was a 23 year old woman who had been raped by three men and subequently convicted of adultery and condemned to death by stoning under Sharia law. In that report they claimed the woman had confessed to the adultery and had requested to be prosecuted under Sharia law and it was further claimed that she felt her ”punishment’ was justice for the adultery she had confessed to.
This more recent article claims that it was not a 23 year old woman confessing to adultery that had been stoned but rather a 13 year old girl whose father had attempted to report the rape in an attempt to have the perpetrators held accountable. Instead of the attackers being bought to trial this poor father has indavertently signed his own daughter’s death warrant when she was detained and charged with adultery.
A 13 year old girl. I can’t even put into words how horrific it must have been for this poor girl to be subjected to this entire ordeal. First she suffers through a rape from multiple attackers and then when she should be protected and nutured by her family, her community and the justice system she suffers even further at their hands. Reading the details on how the stoning proceeeded made me sick to my stomach.
1000 onlookers, 50 men hurling stones and one petrified 13 year old girl burried up to her neck.
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