Man was convicted of sexual assaults on housekeeper

Wild Bill forwarded this article a bit ago and after reading through it I found it not only interesting, but totally mind blowing that this nut is attempting to get his radical views of the treatment of a woman in his life as a possession or chattel admitted into a court and accepted as acceptable Muslim behavior in the United States.

Granted, the abuse of a woman as well as outright killing her if she is suspected of flirting was acceptable in the Saudi kingdom until not too long ago. Some reports still say that it is going on and the male still is getting little slaps on the hand instead of a slap in the head with a mallet.

It was also unsettling to me to read that the Saudi government gave Al-Turki the money he needed to post a $400,000 bond on the charges in Arapahoe County, when they should have told him to go straight to jail and not pass go. Old habits are hard to break in Saudi and the abuse of your, or for that matter any woman is very prevalent.

Before I turn you over to Wild Bill’s forward, please think of this, they have these common views of woman and how and why they can beat, abuse and do whatever they will and we are the bad guys!

The Ranter

from here: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4960559,00.html

Saudi gets long sentence

Man was convicted of sexual assaults on housekeeper

Homaidan Al-Turki says he was targeted by prosecutors because of his Muslim religion.

By Felix Doligosa Jr., Rocky Mountain News
September 1, 2006

CENTENNIAL - Sniffles and sobs resonated in a packed courtroom Thursday as a Saudi man convicted of sexually assaulting his Indonesian housekeeper was sentenced Thursday to 20 years to life in prison.

Homaidan Al-Turki, 37, was also ordered to serve eight additional years for theft charges.

He denied in Arapahoe County District Court that he enslaved the woman and said authorities targeted him because of his religion.

"Your honor, I am not here to apologize, for I cannot apologize for things I did not do and for crimes I did not commit," he told Judge Mark Hannen.

"The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution," he said.

Prosecutor Natalie Decker said the trial had nothing to do with Al-Turki's Muslim beliefs.

"It has to do with what he did to her for five years," she said outside the courtroom.

Al-Turki was convicted this summer of 12 felony counts of unlawful sexual contact with use of force, one felony count of criminal extortion and one felony count of theft. He also was found guilty of two misdemeanors: false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment.

The case has captured the attention of the Muslim community worldwide. The Saudi government gave Al-Turki the money he needed to post a $400,000 bond on the charges in Arapahoe County.

Prosecutors said Al-Turki brought the victim, who is now 24, from Saudi Arabia in 2000 to work as his family's nanny and housekeeper in their Aurora home. Al-Turki is married and has five children.

The victim testified in court that she worked seven days a week and was paid $150 a month. She said Al-Turki and his wife kept most of that money. Al-Turki also allegedly took the woman's passport and sexually abused her.

The Rocky Mountain News is withholding the nanny's name because she is a sexual assault victim. She now lives in Aurora.

"This is a clear-cut example of human trafficking," Decker said. "It's important he is put in prison."