U.S. Latest News Father uses spoon to gouge out eyes of 22-year-old son because he wanted to marry his lover without parents’ permission By Tanya Clark 1:32 PM May 17, 2018 By Tanya Clark 1:32 PM May 17, 2018

Abdul Baqi before and after the attack

A young man was severely punished when he decided to marry a woman he loved.

22-year-old Abdul Baqi from Pakistan asked his parents for permission to marry his lover rather than go through with an arranged marriage.

This angered his family and they gouged both of his eyes out.

Baqi said that his family locked their mother in a room so that she could not intervene. Then they took him into another room where they tied him to a bed.

His 70-year-old father, Dost Muhammmad, and four brothers, Abdul Ghani, Abdul Sattar, Abdul Rehman, and Abdul Karim, used the back of a spoon and a knife to gauge his eyes out.

The victim said that he screamed the entire time and asked them to leave him alone, but the family refused.

“I saw my eye dangling out of the socket. My father then used a knife to cut the veins,” Biqi said.

At that point, he begged his father to allow him to leave, but once again they refused to free him until the second eye was gouged out.

Baqi begged his father and brother to kill him after the vicious attack.

“After they removed my eyes, I pleaded with them to please kill me now but they replied they want me to be an example for other boys in the village,” he said.

Once he was freed, Baqi was able to reach out to a neighbor, who called the victim’s brother, Abdul Gaffar, 24, who did not take part in the attack.

Baqi was taken to Jinnah Hospital in Karachi, where doctors confirmed that he will never be able to see again.