Egypt woman monkey sexual abuse Photo Credit: YouTube Screengrab from video

Mansoura: In a strange turn of events, a woman in Egypt has been sentenced to three years in prison for 'sexually harassing' a monkey, reported Daily Mail.

Basma Ahmed has been charged with 'inciting debauchery' and 'committing an obscene act in public' by the court in Mansoura city.

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In a 90-second video, which had gone viral on the internet, Ahmed is seen laughing while touching the genitals of a monkey at a pet shop in the city. She can be seen making sexual innuendos as people around her laughed out.

She was detained in October for four days, but the period was increased to 15 days by the public prosecutors.

In her statement to the prosecutors, Ahmed had said that she did not mean to abuse the animal and had been rather surprised by its reaction.

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She also claimed that the video had been posted on the Internet without her knowledge.

Meanwhile, officials said that Ahmed was not a first-time offender and has already been charged in two other 'public moral' cases.

The now infamous video had received immense backlash in the conservative Muslim country.