Riyadh, December 07: A sacked Saudi soldier took it on his wife by torturing her with a screw driver despite earlier court warning to him not to beat her up again.
The woman said she had beaten by her 60-year-old husband many times but agreed to move with him to the western Red Sea port of Jeddah to be with her daughters after he was transferred.
After he was sacked, he started to get drunk quite often and beat her up again, prompting her to report him to the police.
“But they did not do anything about it as he was well known among police men…one day he returned home drunk, locked me up in a room and locked our daughters up in another room,” she told Sharq newspaper.
“He then started to drink again and had a screw driver next to him…when he finished drinking, he began to hit me with the screw driver…once he fell asleep later, I sneaked out of the house and went to the hospital.”
Sharq said the unnamed woman was still at hospital and quoted human rights activist, Sama Badawi, as saying “:”I have visited this woman and could hardly believe my eyes when I saw what her husband had done to her.”
She said the woman is pregnant in her second month and that doctors were trying to determine if they can save the baby.
“She reported him to the police again and they went straight to his house but they did not find him or his daughter…it seems he had fled,” Badawi said.
–Agencies–