Posted on 12/31/2011 8:47:04 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Afghan girl's 'horrifying abuse' exposed by video
A video given to the BBC shows the extent of the injuries suffered by a 15 year-old Afghan child bride who was locked up and tortured by her husband.
The girl was left starving after being detained by him and his family for several months.
The case came to light this week when police rescued the teenager, Sahar Gul, who had been locked up in the basement of her in-laws' house.
Police say that she had had her nails and clumps of hair pulled out.
In addition they say she had chunks of flesh cut out with pliers.
Windowless room
Sahar Gul was married off to a 30-year-old man around seven months ago, when she was just 14 years old. Her parents contacted police after not being able to see her for several months.
She was rescued from a dark, windowless room in her in-laws' house, according to Baghlan police official Jawid Basharat.
In the video, as Sahar is taken to hospital in a wheelchair, she is asked who beat her. She names her father-in-law, her husband, her sister-in-law, her brother-in-law and her mother-in-law. The 15-year-old says her hair and her nails were pulled out by her mother-in-law.
The authorities in the northern Baghlan province said they were aware of reports that the girl was tortured after she refused to be forced into prostitution, but could not confirm that was the case.
Rahima Zarifi, director of the Women's Affairs Department in Baghlan, said Sahar had been severely tortured, both physically and mentally, and that the psychological scars were likely to endure.
The police have managed to arrest Sahar's in-laws, but her husband had already fled.
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...”Disgusting animals. That so-called religion and any society guided by it needs to be eradicated”...
This is unbelievably vile. What women in civilized societies need to realize is that we are extremely blessed because for most of the world’s history, too many women have been mistreated in almost all societies, not to the degree we see here, perhaps, but, as the weaker sex, it was an inevitable outcome. And, if the laws of our nation or any other break down, women will again be at risk for cruel treatment. Others who are weak and helpless such as children, the elderly and the sick will also be at risk. A very thin veneer exists over civilization and the photo of this poor young girl, just starting out in life depicts the condition of things when people are allowed to become animals. In my view, those who did this should be immediately subjected to the same thing they did to her. An eye for and eye is good law, if you ask me.
Sick family.
Mine is that a rogue pilot will drop 2 clusters, one on Mecca, the other Medina. I think it’s still ok to dream!
Islam: an insane murder, rape and torture cult since Mad Mo crawled from the bat cave and barked at the moon.
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“There is no punishment on Earth bad enough for these kind of scum.”
And these animals will recieve no punishment in afghanistan. If it even would go to trial, I imagine it will be the girl who is punished while the pigs walk.
“Sick family.”
Just moderate islamists doing what they do best.
My tagline disagrees...
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