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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 1, 2012 20:33:22 GMT
Mother murdered son for 'failing to learn the Koran'Sara Ege used a stick to beat seven-year-old Yaseen “like a dog” if he couldn’t recite passages from the Islamic text. The beatings were so brutal that the boy died from his injuries, and his mother tried to burn the body to destroy the evidence, Cardiff Crown Court was told. Yaseen was originally thought to have died in the house fire. But a post-mortem examination showed Mrs Ege had been beating and abusing her little boy in the months leading up to his murder. In a video recording of her interview with police, Mrs Ege told them: “I was trying to teach him the Koran. “I was getting more and more frustrated. If he didn’t read it properly I would be very angry — I would hit him. “We had a high target. I wanted him to learn 35 pages in three months. “I promised him a new bike if he could do it. But Yaseen wasn’t very good — after a year of practice he had only learnt a chapter.” The court heard Mrs Ege, 32, a university graduate, and her husband, Yousuf, had enrolled Yaseen in advanced classes at their local mosque. They wanted him to become a hafiz — an Islamic term for someone who memorises the Koran. Yaseen was coming to the end of a three-month trial period at the mosque, and Ege was keen for him to impress his Imam. Mrs Ege told officers: “I was getting all this bad stuff in my head, like I couldn’t concentrate, I was getting angry too much, I would shout at Yaseen all the time.” She also hit him with a hammer, a rolling pin and a slipper, as well as repeatedly punching him, the court heard. She would allegedly lock him in the shed, tie him to a door, and force him to do press-ups. In the months after Yaseen’s death, Mrs Ege told a doctor she been told to kill him by Shaitan — an Islamic name for the devil, the court was told. She said: “I have become so harsh, I even killed my own son.” Her husband, 38, denies causing or allowing the death of a child by not stopping the beatings. The trial continues. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9648856/Mother-murdered-son-for-failing-to-learn-the-Koran.html
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2012 8:01:43 GMT
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Nov 2, 2012 16:23:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2012 18:14:37 GMT
I see this is a retrial: the previous jury failed to reach a verdict.
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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 2, 2012 19:15:07 GMT
Seriously??? It's a retrial? ?.......cases like this.....I kinda wish the floor just dropped out from under them and they went straight to hell.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2012 6:52:37 GMT
The papers are presenting the prosecution accusations as facts, but nothing has been proved. The defendants may be able to counter the allegations - the defence hasn't been heard yet.
Having said that, they are safe to report that the mother beat her son because she has admitted that bit.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 7:07:36 GMT
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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 7, 2012 16:13:26 GMT
Well....it will be interesting to see what the defense believes caused his death.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 17:52:59 GMT
The defence doesn't need to prove anything though; that job is the prosecution's. The mother sounds like a tyrant, and a violent one at that, but it doesn't prove she murdered the kid.
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Post by sadie1263 on Nov 7, 2012 18:56:13 GMT
But the child is dead. He didn't just drop for no reason. It's all well and good to say she didn't cause his death......but if he died from blunt trauma.....and she admits she beat him..........you don't have to go much further......unless she is trying to say that someone else beat him.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 20:01:28 GMT
Fair enough Sadie: the defence will have to provide an alternative explanation!
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