By Staff

A Yemeni father shaved off the head of his 13-year-old daughter and pulled off her nails during a torture process that lasted nearly two months on the grounds his estranged wife was sending jinn (ghosts) through her to torment him.

Amin Saad, 45, had also tied his daughter Bagdad to a bed inside a bathroom on the roof of his house in the central Yemeni province of Abb before she was rescued by villagers suspecting the father’s mental condition.

In a report from Yemen, the Saudi Arabic language daily Sada said Saad plunged into a bad psychological state after his wife left him because of his cruelty.

“He took it on his own daughter as he believed that his wife was sending jinn to him through his daughter,” the paper said, quoting Yemeni human rights activist Rashad Al Maamari. “He used sharp objects to apply various methods of torture on her, including shaving her head, pulling off her nails and burning her limbs.”

Man severs daughter’s head for visiting divorced wife



A Yemeni man used a large kitchen knife to sever his married daughter’s head after he was infuriated by her visit to his divorced wife.

The 25-year-old daughter, who has children, has just returned from a visit to her mother in the Western Yemeni town of Taaiz when her father attacked her with the knife.

Police said the dead girl was taken to hospital with a severed head, adding that they mounted a manhunt for the father, who fled the area.



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