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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 man is publicly flogged by a member of the sharia police on November 26, 2020. Photo: AFP
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.

A sharia officer whips the offender in Idi Rayeuk, East Aceh on November 26, 2020. Photo: AFP
A sharia officer whips the offender in Idi Rayeuk, East Aceh on November 26, 2020. Photo: AFP

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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