Moroccan Adultery Case Shocks Nation: Mother’s Disappearance Leads to Prison Sentence

The verdict was handed down on Monday. The criminal chamber of the court of first instance of Fqih Ben Salah sentenced a married woman and her lover to one year in prison. They were both prosecuted for adultery. In addition to the prison sentence, the accused woman must also pay the sum of 10,000 dirhams as compensation to the plaintiff (the husband).

It all started with the mysterious disappearance of the married woman, mother of two children aged 9 and 14, on Saturday, September 20, 2025 in the vicinity of the town of Fqih Ben Salah. She had asked her mother-in-law (her husband’s mother) for permission to go to a library and had not given any sign of life. After seven days of intensive investigation, including the analysis of camera recordings and the use of advanced techniques, the police officers of the regional security district of Fqih Ben Salah succeeded in apprehending the 31-year-old married woman, accompanied by her 40-year-old day laborer lover from the province of Ben Slimane, in a house in the town of Ben Slimane, on the evening of Friday, September 26 last.

After their arrest, the two lovers were taken into custody and then brought before the public prosecutor’s office of the court of first instance of Fqih Ben Salah.