Father in north Lebanon who raped his four minor daughters sentenced to 112 years of hard labor

Justice was served Friday with the verdict in the sordid case, opened in January 2019, involving a father, A.A., who repeatedly raped his four underage daughters: he was sentenced to 112 years of hard labor by the North Lebanon criminal court, presided over by Judge Dany Shebli, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported. The mother of the four girls, who admitted from the initial interrogations to being aware of her husband's actions, while claiming she could not stop him, received the same sentence, under Article 219 of the Lebanese Penal Code, which addresses complicity.

A.A. was convicted for sexually assaulting his four daughters and raping them multiple times at the family home over seven consecutive years. He also sent one of his daughters abroad, where he handed her over, in exchange for a sum of money, to a man who engaged in repeated sexual relations with her for a month before returning her to Lebanon.

No mitigating circumstances

He was found guilty of the crimes under Articles 503, 505, 506, 507, 509, 510 and 511 of the Lebanese Penal Code, relating to sexual harassment, indecent acts, rape, intercourse with a minor, as well as human trafficking, addressed by Article 586 of the same code.

The court did not wish to grant any mitigating circumstances, either to the father or to the mother, stating that nothing justified any leniency towards them.

On Jan. 16, 2019, the judicial police in Tripoli said they had received a complaint from two sisters, F. A., 20, and A. A., 18, accusing their father, A. A. of repeatedly raping them since they were 14 years old. The suspect, who was 50 at the time, admitted to having raped his two daughters from the age of 14 and continued to do so since. He also admitted to having sexually assaulted his other two daughters, aged 15 and 17.