Saudi cleric gets 8 years prison, 800 lashes for killing child

Published January 13, 2015

An official Saudi news website says a prominent Muslim preacher has been sentenced to eight years in prison and 800 lashes for raping and beating his 5- year-old daughter to death.

Fayhan al-Ghamdi, who often preached on television, was convicted of beating his daughter Lama with canes and electrical cables, crushing her skull. She was also raped repeatedly and died in a Saudi hospital in November 2012.

The news website Sabq reported the sentencing on Monday, saying al-Ghamdi was not given a harsher sentence because Lama's mother accepted 1 million riyals, roughly $267,000, from her ex-husband during litigation in the case, as "blood money" allowed under Saudi law.

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