An Islamic
court in northern Nigeria has sentenced a man to be stoned to death for raping
a 13-year-old girl and infecting her with HIV. Such sentences
under strict Sharia laws have been passed before but never carried out in
Nigeria. Past sentences have been commuted to life in prison. The defendant, Ubale Sa'idu Dotsa, testified that the Devil
instigated him to have sex with the girl.
The 63-year-old said he did not know he was infected with
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Dotsa argued that the teenager tempted him by visiting his
shop often at night.
Magistrate Faruk Ahmed ignored his plea for mercy. He said
Dotsa was a married man
who had committed adultery, which is punishable by death by stoning.
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