Kuwait Times

Published Date: March 29, 2007

KUWAIT: A 13-year-old schoolgirl revealed that she was raped by the haris of their building while she was alone in the flat. The haris came to the flat in order to change some lamps as a periodical maintenance check and assaulted the girl sexually and  threatened to kill the girl if she told anyone. The girl informed her parents what happened and the parents took her to the hospital and reported the matter to the police. The haris was summoned for questioning but was then released because he had told the police that he harassed the girl but did not rape her.
 
After three months, the girl started feeling sick and upon getting a check up at the hospital, she discovered that she was pregnant. The parents reported the matter to the police again and the police arrested the haris and referred him to the central jail.

Later on, the girl gave birth, but then the police refused to release the baby only after recording the baby under the name of its father. The family got an authorisation letter from the haris while he was in jail and recorded the baby under his name.