Somali teen executed for adultery had been raped-UN

NAIROBI, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday that a Somali stoned to death by Islamists on accusations of adultery was a 13-year-old girl who had apparently been raped while visiting her grandmother.

In the first such public killing by the militants for about two years, she was placed in a hole and stoned to death on Oct. 28 in rebel-held Kismayu port in front of hundreds of spectators after local leaders said she was guilty under sharia law. Witnesses said at the time that the victim was a 23-year-old woman.

"However, reports indicate that she had been raped by three men while travelling on foot to visit her grandmother in the war-torn capital Mogadishu," U.N. children's agency UNICEF said. "Following the assault, she sought protection from the authorities, who then accused her of adultery and sentenced her to death," it added in a statement.

"A child was victimized twice -- first by the perpetrators of the rape and then by those responsible for administering justice."
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