The story of the poor girl from Zarqa is a story that I will never forget! Indeed if there was a small chance of forgetting it, then it evaporated after reading the heart rending details of the slaughter. Her father raped her for 5 years, opened her belly with a carpet cutter, killing the baby inside, and then stitched the wound?
By the way he is not nuts, as they are claiming, or something. He learned the procedures through the internet, and as soon as she died he went to the police station and turned himself in. Which means he is trying to get a light sentence for what he did.
This is not the first case of a father raping his daughter in Jordan. Such cases have been popping up every 6 months or so for some time now. In one case, a girl was rapped by her father, brother and uncle. So what the heck is going on? Btw, here we are talking about extreme cases, which were destined to surface up and be exposed, but what about the other ones that are not reported? I am 100% sure that there are even boys who are rapped by their relatives.
I am still shocked, but I think this is very normal in a society that does not give a damn about kids who are abused by sick parents, and where a woman is treated like a cattle, and can be killed just because her cousin doubted that she had a relationship with her husband before she married him.
We are talking about 5 years here, and nobody got to know? Do you know why? Because this father could anytime kill both of his daughter and wife and say that they committed adultery. It is this "privacy" of families, and the laws that can be broken in the name of fake honor that renders our legal system inefficient. Not to forget the social screwed up mentality that forces women to shut up and put up with the injustice they face from their purported "protectors".
We should soon have a hot line for reporting any abuses, and deal with them seriously and strictly. Females and kids are to be protected by any means, and this should be the highest priority item on the agenda of the government, NGOs and human rights movements in Jordan.
God bless her soul! She was raped and killed by the one who should have protected her. That is the mother of all miseries. (For more details, Read here.)
