Leuven –
The correctional court of Leuven has a Moroccan man acquitted of sexual assault of a girl of 11 years. He forced the daughter of a friend to a kuspartij out of gratitude, as he said that in his culture is customary.
The minor girl was looking for money when they on the street, Khaled M. D. met. He was no stranger to her, because he was good friends with her mother. He proposed to her the need to help. Together, they took 10 euros out of an atm machine, and he took her home, and invited to provide additional cash money.
In the office took the man to the girl to her to kiss. The victim, weathered, and if the house is abandoned. He asked her several times to nothing about the incident to tell, and went the same evening to visit her mother. The girl opened her story to the headmistress of her school group.
Gratitude
The defendant said that “in his culture is normal that a younger gratitude shows if someone has something for him or her to do”. Because he helped her with money, he had a kiss asked. The man said he had no sexual intentions had been, and the girl earlier as his child, sees.
The court gave the acquittal on the basis of doubt “by the different versions of the facts, the lack of objective elements and the language – and cultural differences that miscommunication response could give.”
