a father of three children was sentenced to death by stoning for having raped his 15-year-old stepdaughter.

a father of three children was sentenced to death by stoning for having raped his 15-year-old stepdaughter. The new controversial verdict was made public by the Nigerian public prosecutor on January 14, 2010. The young girl, who became pregnant, was also sentenced to 100 strokes of the cane. The sentence was handed down by the Islamic Curt of Alkaleri in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Bauchi, which follows the traditional Muslim law code (Shari'a) in its sentencing. While the girl's step father during the court's proceedings confessed that he had raped the 15-year-old girl under his parental protection, the Alkaleri court nonetheless found the girl guilty of having sex outside marriage. Had the court found the act consensual, the girl should have been sentenced to death by stoning.