HAIL: The execution of a man who raped two young boys earlier this year and abandoned one of them to die in the desert in Hail was postponed on Tuesday.
The 21-year-old man was supposed to die on Tuesday afternoon; a new date has not yet been fixed.
The General Court in the northern city of Hail sentenced the man to death after he was found guilty of kidnapping four boys, raping two of them and leaving the youngest, a three-year-old, to die in the desert.
Although the man appealed the verdict, the sentence was ratified by a Court of Cassation.
Police launched a manhunt after the 25-year-old father of the youngest boy, Mohsen Al-Saadi, reported him missing. Al-Saadi’s father also told police that he believed a man in a Land Cruiser to be the abductor. The toddler’s dead body was later discovered in a desert.
On Feb. 13, police received another report of a man who abducted a five-year-old boy. The boy was later found alive and unharmed.
On March 5, police received a report that a seven-year-old boy had been abducted, raped and left at the side of a road in Nakbeen village by a man in a white car.
Subsequent reports also came of an eight-year-old boy who was found walking on the side of the road with his school backpack. The boy said a man took him in his car, but later dropped him off unharmed.
