The trial court, after having listened to the cases of both the prosecuting authority and defence, has rendered a decision convicting the accused under Article (142) of the Law and acquitted him from the accusation in contravention of the provision of Article (45/b) of Child Act for 2010. The court sentenced the convict to six months in prison with a suspension for a period of six months with effect from 18/02/2016. The Appeal Court under its judgment No. 577/2017 upheld the conviction but intervened so as to cancel the order of imprisonment with suspension and returned the papers to the court for issuing a sentence to imprisonment, starting from the date of putting the accused under custodianship of the pending the trial. The trial court did the same which was not required from, but is authorized to do so. The appeal in cassation was submitted to the Supreme Court which issued its decision in question upholding the judgment. In pursuant to the perusal of the trial proceedings file, I cannot see that the prosecuting authority was successful in proving the accused`s harassment against his daughters. The two girls seemed to have been taught the statements which they should have to provide. The first one said that her father sucked her lips, which is a strange expression for children who are in the age of the witness. The accused might have exaggerated the expression of his emotion towards his daughters, as the differences he had with his wife, separated him from his children. The medical report stated that the victim suffered from a minor swelling in the nose bone and did not point out that it required a treatment. I can see nothing supporting the conviction of causation of minor harm by the accused to his daughter. I am therefore in the opinion that the conviction should have to be cancelled in accordance with the provision of Article (142/1) of the Criminal along with accepting the review request and cancelling the conviction and punishment issued against the convict and order to release him. Mahmoud Mohamed Saeed Abkam Supreme Court Judge 07/02/2017 Aber Al Mahi Abd Al Rahman Supreme Court Judge 08/02/2017 Babiker Mohamed Al Tenay Supreme Court Judge 12/03/2017 Mohamed Mostafa Hamad Supreme Court Judge 12/02/2017 Al Fatih Hamid Hassan Hussain Supreme Court Judge 08/03/2017

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