Crowds cheer as they watched officials publicly execute two pedophiles for sexually assaulting and murdering 12-year-old boy
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Two pedophiles from Yemen, Wadah Refat and Mohamed Khaled, marched at gunpoint as they walked through a mob who was awaiting a public execution in the port city of Aden. The accused, 28-year-old Refat and the 31-year-old Khaled were sentenced to death in public for abducting, raping and murdering a 12-year-old boy, Mohammed Saad. People gathered in droves to watch the two men who had dragged Saad into their home and sexually assaulted him in May 2018. They were made to lie down on the ground with AK-47s pointed at them, and the gathered crowd cheered and recorded the event as the officials pumped the bullets into the accused men.
The events unfolded in an extremely mortifying manner. As the boy was playing near his house in the district of Al Basatin, the two men overpowered him and dragged him inside their house, where they raped him. Court documents attributed to El Mundo state, "After the rape, they could not silence the cries of the child who begged for help, one of them grabbed a knife and cracked his neck." Reportedly, there were two more people involved, a 33-year-old woman who happened to be their relative and another person who was sentenced to two years of imprisonment.