Syrian Girl Killed by Stepmother for Being Paralyzed
A woman has admitted to killing her husband's daughter, a Syrian, in Blat Jbeil north of Beirut, for being paralyzed, the state-run National News agency reported Wednesday.
NNA said Nazliyeh Ziad Hammoud, 13, was found dead at her father's house at dawn Wednesday.
The security forces immediately launched an investigation and questioned her stepmother, who admitted to murdering the girl, said the agency.
According to NNA, the woman confessed that she hit the 13-year-old with “a stick on her head and all over her body to get rid of her because she is paralyzed.”
Later on Wednesday, the Internal Security Forces issued a statement confirming the arrest of the victim's father and stepmother, both Syrian.
The stepmother “confessed to hitting her on her head and body with a stick to get rid of her because she was causing her 'agony',” the ISF said.
It also announced seizing “what was left over from the wooden stick, which broke into pieces as a result of the victim's beating.”
“A probe got underway under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities,” the ISF added.
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