In this installment of "We're Not Making This Stuff Up!", an Iranian man... well, you have to read it yourself. Very strange, and often tragic, things happen when religious beliefs and law prevail.
Man Beheads Daughter Thinking She Was Raped [1]Reuters
September 09, 2002 08:35 AM ETTEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian man cut off his seven- year-old daughter's head after suspecting she had been raped by her uncle, the Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper said on Sunday.
A post-mortem, however, showed the girl was still a virgin.
"The motive behind the killing was to defend my honor, fame, and dignity," the paper quoted the father as saying.
Rape often goes unreported in Iran where the conservative society sees it as bringing shame on the victim and family.
Local people have called for the man, who has been arrested, to be hanged, but under Iran's Islamic law only the father of the victim has the right to demand the death sentence.
The paper said the father, named as Khazir, has three wives.
References:
1 "Man Beheads Daughter Thinking She Was Raped", Reuters, 11/9/2002, http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;?type=humannews&StoryID=1426212
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