Husband to testify against wife in infant torture case
A husband of a woman accused of torturing their own infant will take the stand on September 5, 2018, to testify against her. The 26-year-old Arab woman was arrested after she allegedly tortured her infant girl.
The 15-month-old girl was admitted to a hospital with second-degree burns in her private parts, behind her thighs, legs as well as a fractured humerus and a subdural hematoma. And it was the 27-year-old woman’s husband who lodged the case against his wife, accusing her of beating and causing harm to their infant. The couple have two children; a sevenyear-old boy and the victim.
“My client is married to the defendant and they have a seven-year-old boy and a girl aged one year and three months,” the husband’s lawyer Khalifa Al Shajra, said in his statement. “He had previously filed a case against his wife after their infant’s hand got broken. But his family intervened and the case got cancelled.”
The woman said that the infant’s hand got hurt after she fell down while trying to walk, but her version was not trusted by her husband who reported the incident to police. “On the day of the second incident, the husband returned home and found the infant fully covered in a blanket. And the accused told him that she was suffering from fever. It was only later that he realised the infant suffered burns after being scalded with hot water,” the lawyer said.
“The infant was already facing 10 per cent disabilities because of the torture she had undergone at the hands of her mother.” “I was trying to shower her and accidentally turned on hot water tap. I tried to treat the burns with tea and olive oil,” the woman told prosecutors. Her statement was, however, dismissed and she was referred for trial for torturing and causing harm to her infant.
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