A Madina court sentenced an Egyptian man and his sister to death on Tuesday for kidnapping an Afghani girl and keeping her prisoner for four years. The man's three wives who covered up the crime were also sentenced between one and 10 years prison terms. Egyptian national Muhammad Junaidi was charged with masterminding the crime, imprisoning, and sexually abusing the girl, who is now 11, for four years. His sister Jamalat was charged with kidnapping the girl from her mother's shop near the Prophet's Mosque almost five years ago. Junaidi's first Egyptian wife, Fatimah Abdulhafiz, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. And his other two wives Zainab Haroon, Nigerian, and Mirfat Al-Sihaili, Egyptian, were sentenced to a one-year prison term each and a SR500 fine for not reporting the crime to the authorities. Radiah was helping her mother at their clothes shop when Jamalat, with a fully veiled face, posed as a customer who did not have SR100 on her for the clothes she bought, asking the mother to let the girl go with her to get the money from her hotel room. The mother let her daughter go with Jamalat, but she never saw her again until last January when they were reunited. When the police launched a search campaign for the girl, they only found the remains of two children; a discovery which eventually led the investigation. A police officer's suspicions were aroused when he saw a young Asian girl with an Arab-looking woman and an African-looking woman on a Madina street, leading him to their arrest. When investigated, the two women revealed the kidnap story leading to Jamalat who was then detained at the deportation center. The two women also said that Junaidi was the father of the two boys found in a suitecase in front of a mosque. The two boys, one and a half years old and three years old, had died three years earlier but Junaidi kept them in a box on the roof of his house. During the investigation, Junaidi, who was an illegal resident, said that the boys were born with a deformed rib cage and pediatric brain trauma which caused them to die. The police arrested Junaidi as he was planning to escape from the country with his 10-year-old son and two other girls, 10 and 11, who turned out to be his nieces (Jamalat's daughters).
