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I recently read a story in the paper (or more accurately on a friend's Facebook) that told the story of a twelve-year old girl in Africa who was raped by her uncle as she used the outhouse in the middle of the night. His wife discovered them and beat the girl, and then called the police. The courts ordered the girl to 100 lashes and the uncle to 200 lashes. The girl died after being whipped 70 times, the uncle ran away after only being whipped twice. I'll be honest...before reading this story I had thought torture was watching a Vin Diesel marathon.