A 30-year-old man was sentenced today by an Upper Sharia court
in Bauchi to death by stoning for impregnating his younger sister.
Umar Mohammed Kandahar was arraigned before Upper Sharia Court
Unguwar Jaki, by the Bauchi State Shari'ah Commission, where he was accused of
impregnating his younger sister from the same father.
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He has three wives, but forcefully had sex with his sister.
The the 16-year-old girl was brought to the house of her brother
by their father, so Kandahar would take her to school. Instead, he forced
her to have sexual intercourse with her. The act resulted in pregnancy,
and she has already delivered a baby.
The accused pleaded guilty, but stated the girl did not refuse
to have intercourse with him.
The Shariah Court Judge, Musa Barde sentenced him to death by
stoning. The accused had subsequently filed an appeal against the judgment
arguing that he did not agree with the verdict.
The counsel to the accused told the court his family suffered
because of his detention since 2011, and asked the court to release him on bail
to ease the sufferings of his family.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Aliyu Baba Usman, has fixed Monday,
November 25, 2013, for mentioning of the appeal.
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