The government of Iran executed a young man who raped and killed a six-year-old Afghan girl, Setayesh Qoreishi, in Iran in April 2016.

The attorney for Setayesh says the execution took place today, Thursday, Iranian media reported.

The Iranian young man was a 17-year-old.

Iran police records said at the time that the girl was kidnapped by a teenage Iranian neighbor who raped and stabbed her to death and then attempted to dispose of her body by amercing it in a tub full of acid.

When Setayesh's body did not dissolve, the boy allegedly began to panic. He called a neighbor, who called his parents. They alerted the police, who took the boy into custody.