(Riyadh) -- A convicted child rapist in Saudi Arabia will be beheaded and his body crucified.

Saudi newspapers are reporting that a higher court has upheld the sentence for a 22-year-old man convicted earlier this year of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert.

The child left to die was only three years old.

A seven-year-old boy helped police make the case against his attacker.

Saudi Arabia crucifies beheaded bodies by tying them to wooden beams and displaying them publicly.

　

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