Trial opens in Moroccan teen gang rape case

  • 5/22/2019
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He said the accused had confessed to police but most of them had retracted before a magistrate. In a video posted online, Khadija Okkarou said members of a "dangerous gang" had kidnapped and held her prisoner for two months, raping and torturing her. She showed horrific scars allegedly from cigarette burns and tattoos carved into parts of her body. The case has stirred outrage in Morocco, where an official report has found that more than 90 percent of Moroccan victims of violence had failed to file a complaint. Rape victims in Morocco are often subject to a double trauma as its conservative society blames them for their ordeal.

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