Egyptian Toddler Sentenced With Life Imprisonment Due To Mistaken Identity

In an apparent case of mistaken identity, the Egyptian military court handed down a surreal guilty verdict with life imprisonment to a three-year-old toddler for "killing three people and sabotaging public and private property" during the height of 2014 protest by Morsi supporters who vehemently rejected the military coup against Egypt's first democratically elected president.

At the time of the pro-Morsi protest against the military-controlled government, Ahmed Mansour Qorany was only 16 months old provoking public outrage over the Egypt's dysfunctional justice system.

"How could people trust justice if they see this?" asked TV host Wael Elebrashy as he interviewed Mansour Qorany Sharara, the boy's father, who admitted that he'd been on the run for 18 months to evade police arrest of his son as quoted by CNN.

The father had been imprisoned the first time security came to detain his son for the alleged crimes he committed.

The public furor over the mishandling of the toddler's case led security officials to assure that arrest would be pursued for both Ahmed and his father according to a report by WCVB.

As soon as the impending arrest for the boy was called off by authorities, civil rights defenders have been questioning the banality and repressive Egyptian justice system.

"If it is true that it was a mistaken identity, why did they come to arrest the boy? Why haven't security arrested the right defendant then? Most cases involving big events are based on investigations and no tangible evidence. We've seen cases where defendants were either deceased years before the incident or in prison when it happened," remarked lawyer Mahmoud Abu Kaf as mentioned in a report by NPR.