Rabiatu, the adolescent, was sentenced by a court in Funtua, in the northern state of Katsina, the Comet newspaper reported Thursday. The girl, now seven months pregnant, will receive the lashes in January, after the baby´s birth.
The court also sentenced the father of the baby, Balarabe Tela, 24, to 100 lashes and a year in prison.
Premarital sex is prohibited by the Shariah, or Islamic law, in force in Katsina. A 33-year-old woman recently fled after being sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery.
Over the past two years, 12 northern states have introduced Shariah despite the opposition of the federal government, churches, Christian communities and human rights organizations.
