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The man said the girl was demanding and that it was normal in his culture to have sex with underage girls.
The man was sentenced to 8 years in Namur. The prosecution appealed to Liège and asked for a heavier sentence.
The general prosecutor’s office has requested a ten-year prison sentence before the Liège Court of Appeal against a 27-year-old resident of Doische, who must answer for having raped and impregnated his stepdaughter, eight years old! These terrible facts were discovered when the mother noticed that her little girl was no longer having her period. The child was vomiting and did not seem to feel well….
On April 3, 2021, the inconceivable was the result of a medical examination. The girl was pregnant with twins. According to the expert opinion, she was eight weeks and four days pregnant. Conception took place at the end of January 2021, although she was born in May 2012. The stepfather testified that it was the mother’s fault that the girl had been raped because she had dressed her in skirts….
The latter explained that in his country, Syria, it was not bad to have a sexual relationship with a minor. Even when he appeared in court, the accused had not questioned himself. He had stated, “I confirm what I said before the investigating judge. The little girl provoked me. They tell me that she is only nine years old. It is her way of behaving, in her mind she is older than her age. She asked me for it, I stand by the fact that the child asked for the sexual intercourse.”
The lawyer of the accused considered that her client, who had just been granted the status of a political refugee, had now become aware of the seriousness of the offenses. The lawyer pleaded for a suspended sentence as far as possible. “My client is willing to integrate into Belgian society,” she said. The court will pronounce its verdict in March this year.
The man said the girl was demanding and that it was normal in his culture to have sex with underage girls.
The man was sentenced to 8 years in Namur. The prosecution appealed to Liège and asked for a heavier sentence.
The general prosecutor’s office has requested a ten-year prison sentence before the Liège Court of Appeal against a 27-year-old resident of Doische, who must answer for having raped and impregnated his stepdaughter, eight years old! These terrible facts were discovered when the mother noticed that her little girl was no longer having her period. The child was vomiting and did not seem to feel well….
On April 3, 2021, the inconceivable was the result of a medical examination. The girl was pregnant with twins. According to the expert opinion, she was eight weeks and four days pregnant. Conception took place at the end of January 2021, although she was born in May 2012. The stepfather testified that it was the mother’s fault that the girl had been raped because she had dressed her in skirts….
The latter explained that in his country, Syria, it was not bad to have a sexual relationship with a minor. Even when he appeared in court, the accused had not questioned himself. He had stated, “I confirm what I said before the investigating judge. The little girl provoked me. They tell me that she is only nine years old. It is her way of behaving, in her mind she is older than her age. She asked me for it, I stand by the fact that the child asked for the sexual intercourse.”
The lawyer of the accused considered that her client, who had just been granted the status of a political refugee, had now become aware of the seriousness of the offenses. The lawyer pleaded for a suspended sentence as far as possible. “My client is willing to integrate into Belgian society,” she said. The court will pronounce its verdict in March this year.
