No ones thinking of the FLOWERS

Lila's Notes
At the age of nine, Soghra Najafpour was sent by her family to work as a servant in a doctor's home in the northern city of Rasht (Iran).
Four years later she was accused of the murder of the eight-year-old son of the family. Soghra Najafpour reportedly confessed to the murder during interrogation; soon afterwards, however, she denied that she was involved. Nevertheless she was sentenced to death, as the judge did not believe her to be innocent. At the age
of 17, Soghra Najafpour was taken to be executed, but the family of the victim changed their mind at the last minute.
Confidential information of Soghra’s case reveal that once she began working as a maid for the family of the decedent, she was subjected to sexual abuse and was repeatedly raped by Amir’s father. On the day of the incident, Amir’s father had once again attacked Soghra and was raping the 13 year old when his 8 year old son, Amir, walked in and witnessed the crime. In an attempt to get rid of him, Amir’s father pushed the young boy away, and that is how young Amir hit his head to the wall, fell to the ground, and lost consciousness. Soghra’s employer then forced Soghra to dispose the boy’s body in a well because he could not bring himself to do so.
Soghra’s claims of sexual abuse were corroborated by the medical examiner, who, in his report to the court, stated that the young girl’s body bore countless signs of prolonged violent sexual abuse. Furthermore, the investigators had determined that Amir’s father was, in fact, the man who had subjected Soghra to years of sexual and mental abuse.
When the trial judge reviewed this evidence, he ordered Soghra to receive 100 lashes for having engaged in inappropriate sexual relations, but refused to find Amir’s father guilty of rape. The judge explained that Soghra was guilty of inappropriate sexual behavior because the medical records clearly indicated that she had engaged in sexual activity. However, no such evidence was available to prove that Amir’s father was the man who had had sex with the young girl.
And now, the man who sexually abused Soghra from the time she was 9 years old, the very man who is responsible for confining Soghra to the horrors of life in prison for the past 18 years, the man who forced a 13 year old child to take responsibility for a crime that he himself committed, seeks to take away whatever is left of Soghra and her life by ensuring that she is hanged to her death.

Note:
International law strictly prohibits the use of the death penalty against
people convicted of crimes committed when they were under 18. As a state party
to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the
CRC, Iran has undertaken not to execute child offenders. However, since 1990,
Iran has executed at least 24 child offenders. There are fears that at least two other executions may have taken place on 17 October 2007. At least 77 child offenders are currently on death row in Iran. This number may be even higher as according to yet unconfirmed reports at least a further 15 Afghan child offenders may be under death sentence