Riyadh, January 27: A Saudi mother used a massive screw wrench to murder her seven-year-old daughter after she refused to do exercise prescribed by her doctor treating her hand fracture caused by the mother two months earlier.
The 28-year-old woman from the western Saudi town of Taif told police that she was infuriated by her daughter’s disobedience and started to hit her with the wrench despite her screams.
The lean girl, whose father was out at that time, fled to her relatives but her mother chased her despite her heavy bleeding.
Her relatives called on ambulance, which rushed the battered girl to hospital but doctors said she was already dead.
Forensic doctors who examined her said most of the child’s body had traumas, scratches and bruises but that she died after receiving a heavy wrench blow on the back of her head.
Her mother, who earlier refused to answer police questions, broke her silence later and said she beat her up after she refused to follow the doctor’s advise and do exercise for her hand fracture caused by the mother herself two months ago. “I couldn’t stand her disobedience…she drove me mad,” the mother said as she was taken into police custody.
Her husband said his wife had often smacked his daughter and that he had reprimanded her many times. He said that he had also asked his wife’s family to intervene so she could stop violence against the child.
“She then swore that she would never put a hand on her daughter…but she did it again and killed our child…I was out of the house when the incident happened,” the father said, quoted by Alsaudi newspaper.
-Agencies