HIBAPRESS – Fikri Ould Ali
Judicial sources informed HIBAPRESS that the judicial body of the Preliminary Criminal Chamber at the Court of Appeal in Al Hoceima, in the final hours of yesterday, Monday, October 19th, concluded three separate criminal cases related to sexual assaults involving seduction of minors, defloration, and attempted indecent assault, after issuing sentences totaling 40 years of rigorous imprisonment against the accused.
The aforementioned judicial body issued its rulings against three defendants, after discussing cases with varying facts and circumstances of commission. The sentences included civil compensation amounting to 50,000 dirhams in favor of one of the victims. The first case topped the list of penalties, after the court convicted a defendant who worked at a car wash, to twenty years of rigorous imprisonment, in connection with the sexual exploitation of a minor girl, who was under thirteen at the beginning of the events.
The data of this case indicate that the defendant lured the victim, currently 14 years old, to Tangier, where she was subjected to sexual assault. The file also included information about her being supplied with narcotic substances. In a second case, the same chamber resolved the case of a social media activist, who was sentenced to eight years of rigorous imprisonment for attempted indecent assault on a minor, with an obligation to pay civil compensation to the victim amounting to 50,000 dirhams, after a judicial process that lasted about a year.
Regarding the third case, the court convicted a tailor, approximately 35 years old, to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment, in connection with luring a nine-year-old child and attempting to assault him indecently by force in the city of Imzouren. The events of the case date back to the beginning of last summer, when the child, who was learning tailoring from the perpetrator, was lured and taken to another place and seduced, before the case took its judicial course and ended with the initial conviction of the defendant with the mentioned penalty.
