Cairo: In a horrific sexual assault, an 80-year-old woman in Egypt was forced to wear a red lingerie, her hands and legs were tied and then raped her to death.
A court has given the death sentence to the 25-year-old accused.
The victim’s daughter, who lives in Nasr city, said that she and her daughter visited her mother daily as she was unable to move due to her age.
The crime came to light, when the victim's grand daughter entered the granny's room after returning from school.
“When she opened the door of my mother’s house, she found my mother asleep on her bed and beside her was a young man. I called my brother and sister and we went to mom's house,” Emirates 27/7 quoted the daughter as saying.
“My sister and I stood outside the house as we were scared while my brother entered the apartment and began screaming. We also rushed to my mother’s room where we found her hands and legs tied. There were also traces of beating and torture on her body,” she said.
She said her mother was wearing a red night dress which belonged to her.
Meanwhile, the accused was handed over to police. During interrogation, he admitted that he had entered the victim’s house through the window of the toilet.
He revealed that he hit on the victim’s head with an iron bar and then chained her feet and hands before raping her to death.
