The public prosecutor in Jeddah has produced 76 pieces of evidence to support his charges against a child rapist whose case is currently being reviewed at the Jeddah General Court.
The evidence includes DNA test reports supporting the suspect’s forced physical relations with the victims, statements of the victims, cars used by the suspect and objects from the apartments where he allegedly abused the girls.
A few months ago an appeal court in Makkah sent the case back for a review to the trial court, which had sentenced him to death. The trial court observed in its original judgment that it found the suspect guilty of abduction, intimidation, beating, and forcibly taking minor girls to his house before sexually abusing them, Al-Hayat daily reported on Tuesday. The suspect denied the charges saying that he was framed with concocted evidence and hence he should be acquitted.
Police arrested the suspect — a 42-year-old married schoolteacher and father of five children — in June 2011 for raping eight girls since 2006.
Detectives located the suspect’s house on the basis of information supplied by his last victim, who was assaulted days before the arrest.
The man was sexually assaulting girls as young as eight years old after luring them from hospitals and wedding halls.
According to a source, the suspect was believed to have offered sweets to capture the girls before raping them in his SUV at isolated locations or taking the victims to his home after transporting his family to a vacation house and then using an alibi to say he would return later.
A strong argument put forward by the prosecution was that the DNA samples collected from the victims’ clothes matched with the suspect’s DNA.
The prosecution also relied on the medical reports of the victims, identification of the suspect by the victims and the secret camera recordings of the commercial establishments from where some girls were lured away. Some of the girls said they had been forced to drink intoxicating liquors.
The prosecutor demanded the man be given the severest punishment.
Evidence against alleged child rapist submitted
