Exclusive: Saudi Rape Victim Tells Her Story

http://abcnews.go.com/International/Story?id=3899920&page=2

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Justice is defending a sentence of 200 lashes for the victim of a gang rape, punished because she was in the car of a male who wasn't a relative when the two were attacked.

In exclusive testimony obtained by ABC News, the young woman told her story of what happened and how she was treated in the months that followed.

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"They took us to an area … with lots of palm trees. No one was there. If you kill someone there, no one would know about it. They took out the man with me, and I stayed in the car. I was so afraid. They forced me out of the car. They pushed me really hard ... took me to a dark place. Then two men came in. They said, 'What are you going to do? Take off your abaya.' They forced my clothes off. The first man with the knife raped me. I was destroyed. If I tried to escape, I don't even know where I would go. I tried to force them off but I couldn't. man … came in and did the same thing to me. I didn't even feel anything after that.

"I spent two hours begging them to take me home. I told them that it was late and that my family would be asking about me. Then I saw a third man come into the room. There was a lot of violence. After the third man came in, a fourth came. He slapped me and tried to choke me.

"The fifth and sixth ones were the most abusive. After the seventh one, I couldn't feel my body anymore. I didn't know what to do. Then a very fat man came on top of me and I could no longer breathe.

"Then all seven came back and raped me again. Then they took me home. … When I got out of the car, I couldn't even walk. I rang the doorbell and my mother opened the door. She said you look tired.' I didn't eat for one week after that, just water. I didn't tell anyone. I went to the hospital the next day.

"The criminals started talking about it in my neighborhood. They thought my husband would divorce me. They wanted to ruin my reputation. Slowly my husband started to know what had happened. Four months later, we started a case. My family heard about the case. My brother hit me and tried to kill me."

What a f**king joke.
They ou8ght to stick the judge who handed down the sentence on an international watch list, so that if lands anywhere in the world he is immediately arrested for human rights violations.

That sums up the ghastliness of that society.

They're all over this, and thousands of letters are pouring into Saudi Arabia at this moment.

The only thing that might get them to change their barbaric ways is if we stop buying their oil. Fat chance that'll happen.

That is not in question.


Public humiliation/spotlight does wonders in changing behavior.

There's basically nothing that we can do to change Saudi Arabia's brutal policies. But at the very least we should stop pretending that we're working to spread freedom to the Middle East.

There has NEVER been a successful theocracy, and never will be. Remember how Bush refused to condemn the sentence? He'd like a theocracy too, of a different stripe.

Church and State MUST be separated. This poor woman is one of millions who die at the hands of those who rule with a 'holy' book.