Couple Arrested for Allegedly Murdering Lady, 13, Over Stolen Sweets

A husband and spouse in northeast Pakistan have been arrested in connection to the dying of a 13-year-old woman who was employed as a maid for the couple.

Rashid Shafiq and his spouse Sana had been detained on suspicion of homicide, whereas a Quran trainer who labored for them was additionally arrested, the BBC reported on Tuesday, Feb. 18.

The sufferer, recognized solely as Iqra, allegedly stole chocolate from the couple earlier than being tortured to dying, based on a preliminary police investigation. 

The teenager died final Wednesday, Feb. 12. 

The Quran trainer reportedly introduced Iqra to a hospital however left after falsely telling the employees that Iqra’s dad was deceased and her mom was not lively in her life. It’s unclear if the trainer believed the dad and mom’ standing to be the reality. 

Iqra’s father, a 45-year-old farmer named Sana Ullah, instructed the BBC that the 13-year-old was working for the Shafiq household as a result of Ullah was in debt. The kid made roughly $28 per thirty days. 

“I felt fully shattered inside when she died,” Ullah instructed the BBC.

In line with the grieving father, police contacted him final Wednesday to inform him his daughter had been hospitalized. When he arrived on the medical facility, Iqra was unconscious and died minutes later from a number of accidents. 

Preliminary findings prompt the torture and abuse had been frequent. “Photos and movies obtained by the BBC confirmed a number of fractures in her legs and arms, in addition to a severe damage to her head,” the outlet reported.

Human rights activist Shehr Bano condemned the abuse through social media. 

“My coronary heart cries tears of blood. What number of… are subjected to violence of their properties day-after-day for a trivial job of some thousand?” she wrote on X. “How lengthy will the poor proceed to decrease their daughters into graves on this means?”

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Bano’s publish contained video and a photograph of the 13-year-old’s accidents as she lay in her hospital mattress. The hashtag #JusticeforIqra was included within the tweet.

Whereas Ullah instructed the BBC he desires to see “these accountable for my daughter’s dying punished,” the outlet says, “It is uncommon for suspects to be efficiently prosecuted” for some of these instances.

An post-mortem will decide the total extent of Iqra’s accidents.