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The New York Times - December 13, 2007
When the teenager, Alexandre Robert, 15, first reported that he had been gang-raped by three men in July, the authorities discouraged him from pressing charges and raised the possibility of charging him with criminal homosexual activity, his family said. And Dubai authorities did not tell the victimÆs family for more than a month after the attack that one of the assailants had tested positive for H.I.V. while in prison earlier.
The youth fled Dubai, where he was in high school, but returned to testify in the trial. His mother, Veronique Robert, was in court to hear the sentence of the two adult assailants. The third suspect, a minor, is being tried separately in a juvenile court.
Ms. Robert said that she wanted the H.I.V.-positive assailant to receive a life sentence, but that she and her son were pleased Dubai authorities had prosecuted the attackers and had agreed to improve their treatment of victims of sexual assault.
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty against the two adult attackers.
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