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A ten year old boy in southern Pakistan has been fined $7,000 for having an affair with a married woman.
AFP reports that the incident occurred Monday in the remote village of Bakhrani in Sindh province, 510 kilometres (320 miles) north of Karachi.
A local police officer who spoke anonymously said, ''The 10-year-old was caught having an extramarital affair with a lady from another tribe, which created bad blood between the two tribes . The incident was later taken to a jirga (tribal court) which ordered the boy’s family to pay a fine of Rs700,000 ($7,000) to the aggrieved side. The boy’s family paid Rs50,000 ($500) up front and undertook to pay off the remaining amount within three months''.
Under Pakistan’s penal code, an adult male having sex with a female child is considered to have committed statutory rape, but a woman having sex with a boy does not come under the law. The woman the boy had an affair with is in her late 30s.
AFP reports that the incident occurred Monday in the remote village of Bakhrani in Sindh province, 510 kilometres (320 miles) north of Karachi.
A local police officer who spoke anonymously said, ''The 10-year-old was caught having an extramarital affair with a lady from another tribe, which created bad blood between the two tribes . The incident was later taken to a jirga (tribal court) which ordered the boy’s family to pay a fine of Rs700,000 ($7,000) to the aggrieved side. The boy’s family paid Rs50,000 ($500) up front and undertook to pay off the remaining amount within three months''.
Under Pakistan’s penal code, an adult male having sex with a female child is considered to have committed statutory rape, but a woman having sex with a boy does not come under the law. The woman the boy had an affair with is in her late 30s.
