Kuwait court upholds death penalty for cop who raped Pinay
A Kuwait court has upheld the death penalty for a traffic policeman for abducting, raping and attempting to kill a Filipina, a Kuwait news site reported Wednesday.
The policeman, who was initially convicted last June, can still appeal the sentence even as the victim's lawyer said they would demand compensation, Kuwait Times reported.
While the policeman initially denied arresting the Filipina and later pleaded insanity, a psychiatric diseases hospital declared he was sane and thus responsible for his actions.
The report noted some 180,000 Filipinos, many of them women working as domestic helpers, live in Kuwait. It said Filipinos are the fourth largest foreign community in the Arab state.
Court documents showed the policeman stopped a taxi with two Filipinas and found one of them had an expired residency visa.
He ordered the Filipina to get into the police car, and told the taxi driver to move quickly, supposedly to prevent witnesses from recording the taxi's plate number.
After the Filipina got in the patrol car, the policeman supposedly drove to an open yard in Mishref where he stripped and asked her to do the same.
When the Filipina refused and asked him instead to take her to the police station or hand her over to the Philippine embassy, the policeman stabbed her in the neck and raped her, then left her for dead in a pool of blood.
Not content, he returned and stabbed her several more times in the neck, chest and back when he saw her move.
The policeman then dragged the Filipina's body and hid her behind a mound of sand for stray dogs, but the Filipina managed to crawl to a nearby road where a passerby took her to a hospital.
She and the taxi driver eventually identified the suspect in a lineup. — Joel Locsin/LBG, GMA News
The policeman, who was initially convicted last June, can still appeal the sentence even as the victim's lawyer said they would demand compensation, Kuwait Times reported.
While the policeman initially denied arresting the Filipina and later pleaded insanity, a psychiatric diseases hospital declared he was sane and thus responsible for his actions.
The report noted some 180,000 Filipinos, many of them women working as domestic helpers, live in Kuwait. It said Filipinos are the fourth largest foreign community in the Arab state.
Court documents showed the policeman stopped a taxi with two Filipinas and found one of them had an expired residency visa.
He ordered the Filipina to get into the police car, and told the taxi driver to move quickly, supposedly to prevent witnesses from recording the taxi's plate number.
After the Filipina got in the patrol car, the policeman supposedly drove to an open yard in Mishref where he stripped and asked her to do the same.
When the Filipina refused and asked him instead to take her to the police station or hand her over to the Philippine embassy, the policeman stabbed her in the neck and raped her, then left her for dead in a pool of blood.
Not content, he returned and stabbed her several more times in the neck, chest and back when he saw her move.
The policeman then dragged the Filipina's body and hid her behind a mound of sand for stray dogs, but the Filipina managed to crawl to a nearby road where a passerby took her to a hospital.
She and the taxi driver eventually identified the suspect in a lineup. — Joel Locsin/LBG, GMA News
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