The Cairo Criminal Court has decided to send the papers of a gynecologist accused of forcing women who had extramarital pregnancies to have sex with him in exchange for performing abortion procedures in the Rod Al-Farag area to the Grand Mufti of Egypt for his legal opinion on his execution. The court has set a session for February 29 to announce the verdict.
Investigations revealed that the accused owned a clinic in the Shubra area where he performed abortions on women after their extramarital pregnancies, in exchange for engaging in forbidden relationships with them or after rendering them unconscious. The investigations also indicated that he charged some women money for the abortion procedures and coerced others into signing promissory notes as a guarantee to prevent them from escaping his clutches.
It was established that the accused drugged his victims before sexually assaulting them inside the clinic located at his family's residence, and he did not confine himself to his criminal acts but also documented them with audio and video recordings. Moreover, one woman reported that the accused attempted to blackmail her into having the abortion to prevent her situation from being exposed to her family. However, she filed a report at the Rod Al-Farag police station, leading to the arrest of the accused and his referral to the prosecution, which decided, after concluding the investigations and confirming the charges based on the testimonies of his female victims and police investigations, to send him to the criminal court for charges of indecency and rape.
The accused, who had assaulted his patients and filmed them in compromising positions, had given detailed confessions before the issuance of a judgment against him by referring his papers to the Mufti in a routine step preceding the issuance of the death sentence.
