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Indonesian man who raped child collapses as he’s whipped some 150 times in Aceh
- The 19-year-old was arrested earlier this year on charges of molesting and raping a young victim
- During the caning, he pleaded for the punishment to stop and was briefly treated by doctors before the flogging restarted
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A teenager who was lashed nearly 150 times collapsed during his punishment for raping a child in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province, where public caning is a common penalty for violating Islamic law.
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The 19-year-old grimaced and cried out as a masked sharia officer on Thursday whipped his back with a rattan stick in the town of Idi Rayeuk in East Aceh.
He pleaded for the punishment to stop and was briefly treated by doctors before the flogging restarted.

The man was arrested earlier this year on charges he molested and raped the victim, whose age was not revealed.
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He was sentenced to 146 lashes, a particularly high number reserved for the most serious crimes.
“The maximum sentence is meant to be a deterrent,” Ivan Nanjjar Alavi, an official from the East Aceh prosecutor’s office, told reporters.

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