Indonesian Child Rapist Begs For Mercy As He Receives 146 Lashes
An Indonesian man collapsed and begged for mercy as he was flogged nearly 150 times today for raping a child in a province where public whipping is a common punishment for violating Islamic law.
The 19-year-old grimaced and cried out as a masked sharia officer lashed his back with a rattan stick in the town of Idi. 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.
The 19-year-old man is pictured sitting on the floor after he collapsed in pain while being publicly flogged by a member of Aceh's sharia police
He was sentenced to 146 lashes, a particularly high number reserved for the most serious crimes. ...