Mansoura criminal court sentenced on Tuesday the defendant accused of raping a twenty-month old toddler named Jana, known in the local media as the "Pampers Infant", to death. The court listened, in a closed-door session on Tuesday to the defendant, who admitted committing the crime, Al-Watan news reported. The defendant Ibrahim Mahmoud al-Refaei admitted for the second time raping the infant, saying: "I did a mistake and I confess to raping the infant." The lawyer of the victim's family's demanded the harshest punishment for the defendant over committing a crime he described as "unprecedented in human history". Investigations showed that the suspect was known to police, as he was badly behaved and had frequent conflicts with his brothers.

Source: Egypt Independent May 02, 2017 16:07 UTC