Moroccan teenager Khadija Okkarou, 17, is seen in a picture with her face blurred as she sits in the village of Oulad Ayad, in the Beni Mellal region, on August 21, 2018.<br />Moroccan police have arrested 12 people over the alleged gang-rape of the teenage girl, a court official said on August 28, 2018, in a case that has sparked outrage in the North African kingdom. In a video posted online last week, Okkarou, said members of a “dangerous gang” had kidnapped and held her for two months, raping and torturing her. In the video, she showed what appeared to be scars from cigarette burns and tatoos carved into parts of her body.<br />/ AFP PHOTO / STRINGER
The hometown of a Moroccan teenager who says she was kidnapped and gang raped is divided over her account of a case that has…
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