CAIRO: Mohamed Samy, the 21-year-old Tok tok driver suspect in the rape of 11-year-old Hend, denied the accusation after he was identified by the victim in the prosecutor’s office of Al-Khankah area.
The crime, which took place about nine months ago in Qalyubia, resulted in the birth a baby girl.
Samy, according to Al-Wafd newspaper, asked for a DNA test. Hend insisted that Samy was the one who raped her after dragging her to an abandoned house where he threatened her with a gun and beat her up severely, according to her statements after the rape.
Hosam Bahgat, chairman of Egyptian Initiative of Personal Rights, told The Daily Star Egypt that the government is not doing enough to prevent sexual assaults before they take place, neither does it provide the needed medical and psychological treatments for rape victims.
As for the social perspective of the Egyptian community, which tends to blame female rape victims for the accidents, Bahgat said that this is not unique to Egypt, and added that this social ideology reflects the lower status of women in our society, and again the failure of the government to protect the identity [of females].
