- JEDDAH: A Saudi schoolteacher accused of raping eight young girls aged between six and 12 appeared before a three-judge panel in the general court in Jeddah on Wednesday and denied all charges against him.
The 43-year-old also described the evidence collated by the Prosecution and Investigations Commission (PIC) as fabricated, Al-Madinah newspaper reported Thursday quoting court sources.
This is the second court hearing the accused has attended since he was arrested. He responded to the 35-page document prepared by the PIC that included a list of charges, testimonies of the victims and the results of DNA tests.
The sources said the accused denied all the charges and said the evidence against him was weak. He told the judges that one of the girls said the man who raped her was black.
The list of charges against the defendant included kidnapping and sexually abusing underage girls, terrorizing them and their families, forcing some of them to drink alcohol and watch pornographic clips and dumping them on the streets afterward.
According to the sources, the attorney general called for the death penalty for the defendant. He said the defendant should be beheaded as his actions constituted declaring war on society.



