KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwait court yesterday handed down two more death sentences on an Egyptian man accused of abducting and raping 17 children, bringing the total to eight death sentences, a legal source said.
Jihad Saadi, 27, was arrested in July last year as he prepared to board a flight to Luxor in Egypt. Authorities said he confessed to raping the 17 children in Hawalli, a residential district 12 kilometers south of Kuwait City.
The court, which has been trying the man on a case-by-case basis, had already issued six death sentences and a life term on Saadi. Two of the death sentences had already been confirmed by the appeals court.
In September last year, he told the court his confession had been obtained under torture and denied all the charges against him.
Saadi had earned the nickname “the Hawalli monster” after a spate of rapes of boys and girls aged 10 years and younger, whom he lured onto rooftops in the residential district, mostly inhabited by foreign workers.
