El-Adaein, October 23(Darfur24) l-Firdous local police, 35 km west of El Daein, the capital of East Darfur, released on Sunday 23 October the six accused of killing two girls and torturing five others from their family on the grounds that one of them was pregnant out of wedlock.
Darfur 24 correspondent said the girls’ family put pressure on the local government of Al-Firdaws and the leaders of the Native Administration to release the suspects ,under the pretext that the family did not file a report regarding the murder and torture of the girls.
Sources from the area said that the family hid the burial place of the two girls’ bodies to prevent their re-autopsy, and also obtained fake birth certificates under the age of 18 to take legal loopholes, prompting the prosecution to agree to release the six defendants on bail.
Social researcher Ismail Abdullah believes that releasing the accused because of their young age is a leniency on the part of the authorities in a heinous crime, in light of the existence of a child court to try children who commit crimes.
Two girls were killed among the seven who were tortured by eight young men from their clan on May 29, because one of them was pregnant in incest.
The police managed to arrest six of the accused, while two of them hid themselves from legal prosecution. In recent months.
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The killing of girls by their families because they carried mobile phones has become common in the region. The number of murders has reached 14, the most recent of which was the killing of a girl in Bulbul Abu Jazo area on Wednesday, October 29 at the hands of her brothers.