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Man Butchers 15-Month-Old Nephew in Jeddah Supermarket Samir Al-Saadi, Arab News
JEDDAH, 3 March 2008 — Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah were left reeling yesterday, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store’s fruit and vegetable section.
In a brutal murder that has shocked the city, the 25-year-old man beheaded the boy, who was out shopping with his mother — in full glare of shoppers and staff at Al-Marhaba supermarket on Sari Street around 9.30 a.m. The man, who is the boy’s maternal uncle, apparently killed the boy following a dispute with his sister and brother-in-law.
Eyewitnesses said that the man picked up a knife from inside the store and severed the boy’s head. The mother and a shopper standing close by fainted, while several other stood in shock and disbelief over what had happened.
A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Arab News, “The murderer was in a dispute with the boy’s mother and her husband. He chopped off the boy’s head in front of the mother to get back at her.” He added that the mother has been left traumatized and is in hospital. The boy’s father was at work at the time of the incident.
Following the murder, police sealed off the supermarket while forensic experts gathered evidence. Ambulances were also called to the scene. The supermarket reopened for business at around 1.15 p.m. “It happened so quickly. Before people could intervene, the man had cut more than half way through the child’s neck,” said Abu Muhammad, a grandfather in his mid-60s.
A Saudi till attendant at a nearby cafe said, “One of my colleagues went to see what was going on and returned shivering. He saw the kid’s body and so we gave him the day off. He was in a bad state.”
An eyewitness, who lives in the neighborhood, said that the victim’s family lived close by and frequented the supermarket. “I’ve seen the murderer carrying the same child and playing with him on a number of occasions,” he added.
“No one could bear the gruesome sight of the boy’s decapitated body lying on the floor,” said Muneer, a Turkish car mechanic, who works at a garage close by. “How could someone do such a thing? I just can’t understand it... I still can’t believe it,” he said, shaking his head.
When the store reopened, employees were still in a state of shock. A guard, standing at the entrance, stood frozen and oblivious to the rush of shoppers. Pain and anguish were writ large on his face.
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right. like 73 year old men kidnapping and raping their own daughters could only happen in Europe, and how parents microwave their baby girls, which of course, could only happen in the United States.
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quote:Originally posted by Vader: Sick doesn't have a country.
Agree.
This is a very sad story. I just dont understand sick peoples minds, how can they do such horrible things?
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Vader is so right, just tonight on our news a father was charged with stabbing to death his 2 children one was 25, one was 7. Every country has such sad stories.
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3 dead infants found in freezer in Germany, mother arrested By DANIELA PEGNA Associated Press Writer
OLPE, Germany — A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing three of her babies after their bodies were discovered in the family freezer by her grown children looking for pizza, police said Monday.
Police confirmed the grisly find Sunday night in the town of Wenden, near Olpe, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia after the woman turned herself in, officials said.
A police barrier band is stretched in front of a house in Wenden, Germany, on Monday, May 5, 2008. The bodies of three German infants have been found stuffed in a basement freezer and their mother has been arrested, a prosecutor's spokesman said Monday. Johannes Daheim said police determined the three infants had not been stillborn but did not say how old they were or what the cause of death was. He said the bodies were found Sunday night after police received a tip and searched the home in Wenden in North Rhine-Westphalia. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz) The three infants are believed to have been born alive, but authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine how they died, said Johannes Daheim, a spokesman for prosecutors investigating the case.
The woman, her 47-year-old husband and three adult children — two sons, aged 18 and 22, and a 24-year-old daughter — have lived in the town in a single-family home since 1984.
The children discovered the frozen babies on Saturday afternoon while their parents were away for the weekend, investigator Martin Feldmann said.
The 18-year-old and his sister had been looking for a frozen pizza and came across a lot of expired food so decided to clean out the freezer.
The teenager then found three identical packets on the bottom of the freezer and opened one and saw the head and arm of an infant that was wrapped in a hand towel, police said.
The children confronted their parents when they returned home Sunday, and the couple and their daughter then went to police together to tell authorities, said Herbert Fingerhut, head of the police investigation, at a news conference.
The corpulent woman apparently concealed the three pregnancies, believed to have been in the 1980s, not only from neighbors but also her own family, Fingerhut said.
"It sounds unbelievable, but there are examples showing such things are possible," he said.
The news of the discovery took other residents aback.
"I've been mayor for 14 years, and this is definitely the worst day I've seen," said Peter Brueser. "We will need a long time here to work through this."
It was the latest in a string of similar cases in Germany.
In the worst case, a woman was convicted of manslaughter in 2006 and sentenced to the maximum 15 years in prison for killing eight of her newborn babies and burying them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents' home near the German-Polish border.
More recently, police in February were called to a home in northern Germany where a dead infant was discovered in the cellar.
In January, a 28-year-old German woman was charged with manslaughter after the remains of three babies were discovered in her house and the home of a relative. That woman has denied killing the babies.
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OKAY!!! this is the relationship thread, not the morbid news one. KHALAS!
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I only read the first line of ED77's post and couldn't face the rest. Yes there are some very sick people in this world, thankfully the good outweigh the bad Posts: 1917 | From: WALES | Registered: Apr 2007
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I'm just passing through here On my way to somewhere civilised And maybe I'll even arrive Maybe I'll even arrive....
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OMG. I feel sick now from reading these. How can anyone be so cruel. Its all just so horrible.
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quote:Originally posted by hibbah: right. like 73 year old men kidnapping and raping their own daughters could only happen in Europe, and how parents microwave their baby girls, which of course, could only happen in the United States.
im am quoting the ever so famous beheadings that they just love to give people over there. i wont stick up for america...i know people here are just as sick...but chopping off your brothers child's head in a supermarket, that tops it. as far as microwaving, no one in their right mind does that...some women suffer from postpartum. and for a guy to do that, well lya he sick.
im sure women in egypt suffer that too, but they are smacked into suffering in silence.
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