Kids with
disabilities are often seen as an embarrassment to the family. One
Pakistani man took extreme measures to get rid of his disabled baby.
Mohammed Anwar, was arrested and accused of burying his newborn daughter alive because she was physically deformed.
Anwar
is a police officer in the city of Khanewal in the eastern Punjab
province, his daughter was born at a hospital in the nearby town of
Kacha Khoh.
"After
seeing his newborn daughter, Anwar told his relatives that the baby was
born dead. He organized a funeral for her. During the funeral service
the baby started crying. The presiding cleric told the father to rush
the baby girl to the hospital but instead of going to the hospital he
buried the baby," Shamshad Khalid, the town's police chief said.
Residents
alerted the police after seeing the father take the baby to the
graveyard. Police raided the man's house and arrested him on a murder
charge.
“She was healthy and alive but she had a fairly large head and abnormal features,” said Mohammed Farooq, the doctor who took care of the baby after she was born.
Police
will exhume the child's body and perform an autopsy. The father could
be sentenced to death if he's found guilty of killing his daughter according to your Jewish news.
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