An Emirati father brutally tortured his eight-year-old daughter
to death and injured her seven-year-old sister because he wanted
to exorcise jinn from their bodies, Gulf News learnt yesterday.
The 29-year-old father, Hamad S., thought jinn
possessed his daughters so he tortured them
more because he was provoked every time the girls
laughed when he beat them, said a police lieutenant during prosecution
questioning. Prosecutors charged Hamad and his 27-year-old Emirati
girlfriend, Al Onoud A., with illegally grounding the two daughters
in a flat and torturing eight-year-old Wudeema to death and injuring
seven-year-old Meera. The latter sustained 10 per cent permanent
disability.
Gulf News obtained a
copy of the charges, in which the lieutenant
cited Hamad alleging that he used excessive beating and torturing
to exorcise the jinn from his daughters’ bodies.
Hamad and Al Onoud entered their pleas before the
Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.
“I did not torture Wudeema to death. I took Meera
to Rashid Hospital to treat her broken arm… I
didn’t torture her. I did not confine them, but I used
to take them out,” Hamad told Presiding Judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi
yesterday.
Al Onoud surprised the crammed court when she
contended: “Hamad did not do anything to the
girls. I beat and tortured them with hot water,
electric wire, an iron… I electrocuted them with the taser gun.”
Senior Chief Prosecutor Mohammad Ali Rustom, Head
of Family and Juveniles Prosecution, asked
the court to implement a capital punishment against the suspects. The
couple was also accused of hiding Wudeema’s body by
burying it without obtaining proper permission.
“I was present with Hamad when he buried Wudeema,”
claimed Al Onoud, who is believed to be pregnant."
Hamad admitted that he buried his dead daughter in
Al Badayer area in Sharjah.
Concerning the charge of torturing Meera and
causing her a permanent disability, Hamad
maintained: “The Taser gun was not working. I didn’t torture her.”
The father asked the court to get a copy of the
medical report from Rashid Hospital to prove
that he took Meera for treatment when her arm was
fractured.
Following Wednesday’s hearing, the mother was
heard shouting at Al Onoud: “You will go to hell and be tortured there.”
Two lawyers will be appointed to defend the
suspects and prosecution witnesses will
testify when the court reconvenes on Wednesday.
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