Pakistan court frees rapist after he agrees to marry his victim

Dawlat Khan, 25, was sentenced to life in prison by a lower court in Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in beautiful Pakistan [pronounced "Pahkeestaaan" as per former President Barack Hussein Obama, and he should know] for raping a deaf woman. Apparently, that helped him sneak up behind her before his attack.

Well, as it turned out, a Pakistan court freed the scumbag after he married the victim in a settlement arranged by a council of horny elders in the northwest of the country, Khan's lawyer said last week. 

Sure the decision angered, and one can even say outraged, rights activists who claim it legitimizes sexual violence against women, [in a country where most rapes go unreported due to the almost impossible barriers imposed by sharia law to prove it was rape, as opposed to a promiscuous woman forcing a man to have sex with her which would result in her stoning to death if she cannot prove it].

Khan was released from prison Monday afterr the Peshawar High Court accepted an out-of-court- settlement agreed by the rape survivor's family. See, if a woman gets raped, the family blames her and often will kill her to protect their "honor." It's called an honor killing for that reason.

"The rapist and the victim are from the same extended family," Amjad Ali, Khan's lawyer, told AFP. So not only did this POS rape a deaf woman, he raped a family member and all he had to do was marry her and get away with it.

"Both families have patched up after an agreement was reached with the help of local jirga (traditional council)," he added.

Khan was arrested after his unmarried victim delivered a baby earlier this year, and a paternity test proved he was the child's biological father. 

According to the Asma Jahangir Legal Aid Cell -- a group providing legal assistance to vulnerable women -- the conviction rate is lower than three percent of cases that go to trial. This is mainly due to the sparsity of reporting the crime and the social stigma attached to it.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said it was "appalled" by the court's ruling.

"Rape is a non-compoundable offense that cannot be resolved through a feeble 'compromise' marriage," the group tweeted without being censored, now that Musk owns Twitter.

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