A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment for sending an underaged girl as a domestic worker to Jordan.
The accused is reported to have created a fake birth certificate and National Identity Card (NIC) for the minor, who was living with her grandmother.
Issuing the judgement, Colombo High Court judge Nawaratne Marasinghe imposed a fine of Rs. 25,000 on the accused and also ordered him to pay a compensation of Rs. 300,000 to the victim.
The justice warned that failure to pay the compensation would result in an additional 1 ½ years of jail term.
The judge pointed out that the aggrieved girl had been subjected to torture and abuse by the householders she worked for within two months of going abroad and had later returned to Sri Lanka in 2008.
The judge noted that if she had not returned, the girl could have suffered the same fate as Rizana Nafeek, who was executed in the Middle East.
This indictment against the accused, a father of three from Kalmunai, is being presented to the court after nine years following investigations conducted regarding the girl. (Islandnews)
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