My religion is offended by child killers.
Accused Orland child killer asks for Quran behind bars, lawyer says
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1522160,041109hadid.article)
April 11, 2009
BY KIM JANSSEN Staff writer
Accused child killer Nour Hadid asked for a Quran in jail and was provided with one Friday, according to her new attorney, Joel Brodsky.
“Nour had only one request Friday and that was that she be brought an Arabic-language Quran, which the Cook County sheriff’s officers have given her,” Brodsky said. “Both she and her husband are modest and devout Muslims.”
Hadid, 26, is accused of killing her 2-year-old niece, Bhia, by beating and biting her to death over a four-day period ending Sunday.
Police say she gave a video-taped confession to killing the child at her Orland Park home.
But her husband, Alaeddin Hadid, says police humiliated her by forcing her to remove her headscarf for a booking photo, which he said was an insult against the couple’s Muslim faith.
Brodsky, best known lately for being Drew Peterson’s attorney, said he believed Orland Park police had “deliberately” humiliated Hadid with the photo as part of “an illegal interrogation.” He suggested he’d try to have the confession removed from evidence.
Orland Park police said Thursday they followed normal procedure when photographing and interviewing Hadid, who is being held without bail until her next hearing April 30.