A Judge in the The Maldives, the smallest predominantly Muslim nation in Asia, has responded to the rape of a 12-year-old girl by blaming the victim. The four men who broke into the victims home and raped her were instead convicted of consensual sex outside of marriage. The Judge determined the girl consented to gang raped by four men.
On January 31 the men aged between nineteen and twenty-five used an axe to smash the window of the girl’s bedroom before taking her from her bed and having sex with her. The state charged the four men with rape.
But in his summation the judge noted “the girl had reached puberty” and found “she was a willing partner,” because she had not screamed, struggled or told her sister-in-law or step mother about the event.
The message to Maldivian men is simple, rape as you will. The law will protect you.
Will an honor killing follow? I mean, she asked for it... Her family's honor has been besmirched. i bet her uncles are out looking for stones as I write this.
Religion poisons everything
