Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with adultery was lashed to death

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14. Two years after, we can probably do more here than simply repost the story

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If you like, of course, I can lay out my prejudices clearly before proceeding further: (1) I oppose the death penalty; (1) I oppose corporal punishments (such as beatings and lashing); (3) I oppose extrajudicial "justice"; and (4) I oppose traditions and social views that treat men and women according to a double-standard

The story here seems to be that a fourteen year-old in a tiny Bangladeshi village was beaten to death for "adultery" after being raped by a cousin, who himself seems to have escaped any significant punishment. Although this extrajudicial punishment was illegal under Bangladeshi law, her parents themselves apparently knowingly delivered her into the hands of the people who beat her to death. Several local doctors then performed an "autopsy," finding that she had no serious injuries and concluding that she had committed suicide. Her parents were shocked by the violent events and complained, obtaining a second autopsy (that determined death had resulted from homocidal injuries). A court judgment, ordering prosecution of the doctors responsible for the original coverup, followed. Beyond that, my quick search has not yielded further information

It would be informative to learn whether anyone was prosecuted, but I have not been able to determine that

It is not quite clear to me why you choose to portray my attempt to provide such additional details as "apologetics" or why you want to put words in my mouth. I naturally suspect that you are trying to relieve your ennui by provoking some silly reaction, but I consider that whole avenue a crashing bore: why not just stop playing these silly accusatory games? You know perfectly well you will find at DU absolutely no one who believes it is OK to beat another person, let alone beating a woman to death as an "adultress" when she was in fact a rape victim and when the "sentence" was an extrajudicial judgment contrary to law