Pitching a Tent in Amman
A couple of questions to keep in mind when reading the following article:
1.) Who was keeping count?
2.) Why was this person keeping count?
3.) Do you think the author used the phrase “tent he erected” with much thought?
AMMAN – The Criminal Court has sentenced a 22-year-old man to six years and eight months in prison after convicting him of engaging in consensual sex with a minor in November 2006 in an Amman neighbourhood.
The tribunal declared Khalid I., a Zarqa resident, guilty of engaging in sexual activities with his 17-year-old female relative 83 times in a tent he erected on a main road.
“The defendant and the minor fled together from their homes in Zarqa on November 26 and headed to Amman where they erected a tent and lived together for seven months before the matter was exposed,” the court said.
The defendant had entered a guilty plea in previous court sessions, informing the judges that he committed these acts to force her family to let their daughter marry him.
