News Center - On Wednesday, May 25, the Tebessa Criminal Court of First Instance Court sentenced a rapist of a minor girl under the age of 16 to 12 years in prison. The victim's father has been sentenced to a year in prison for misdirecting the judicial system by making false statements.

In 2017, a man in his thirties, who worked for a private construction company, raped a 14-year-old girl.

According to local sources, the offender raped the victim at his family home while his family was not at home and the rape resulted in the girl's pregnancy. The offender pledged to marry the victim, but he stayed disguised, forcing the girl's family to file a complaint with the security authorities. When the accused offender received a summons, he didn't find a way out of what he did but to go to the victim's house, only when he learned that the girl was about to give birth. To deceive security and justice, the criminal submitted a customary marriage contract with the agreement of the girl's blind father with a prior date.

She gave birth after 10 days of marriage so that the newborn girl could be recorded as his daughter, but the perpetrator expelled the minor after only a few days, refusing to negotiate for her return. The girl's relatives filed a complaint against him as a result of this. When the investigation began, it was determined that there were fraudulent statements in a public record, and the date of the pregnancy and marriage were verified. As a result, the court decided that the criminal should be imprisoned.

The perpetrator attempted to fabricate a scenario based on media reports in order to deceive the legal system by claiming that the child was not his child, but the confrontation exposed the truth.