Mother kills son that "failed to learn the Quran"

[Milkster]

A mother convicted of beating her seven-year-old son to death for failing to learn the Koran by heart has been jailed in Britain for a minimum of 17 years.
Sara Ege, a 33-year-old mathematics graduate from India, battered her son Yaseen with a stick in July 2010 when he failed to memorise Islamic texts and burned his body to hide the evidence, Cardiff Crown Court in Wales heard during the trial.

Ege collapsed as she was sentenced on Monday and was led sobbing from the dock.
"Yaseen was subjected to prolonged cruelty," Judge Wyn Williams told her as he passed sentence.

"I am satisfied that, over three months, you beat him on a number of occasions."
The judge said that until the final three months of Yaseen's life Ege had been "a very good mother" in many respects. He also acknowledged that she had suffered prolonged periods of depression.

Yaseen was initially believed to have been killed in a fire at the family home in Pontcanna, Cardiff, but tests later revealed he was dead before the blaze began.
A jury found Ege guilty last month of murder and perverting the course of justice.
She had confessed to the murder but later retracted the confession, saying her husband and his family had forced her into it.

Her husband, Yousef Ege, 38, was cleared in December of failing to prevent the death.
The judge said Yaseen had suffered "serious abdominal injuries" on the day he was killed, when Ege had kept the seven-year-old at home to study the Koran.
"On that day Yaseen must have failed in some way because I am satisfied that it was that failure which was the trigger for the beating," he said.

"That is what you told the police in the course of your confession in July 2010 and I see no reason to doubt what you then said was true."
He added: "There can be no doubt that you set fire to his body in an attempt to evade the consequences of what you had done."

Ege had told police she could not stop herself beating her son and had repeatedly pledged to God before Yaseen's death that she would not do it again, but her good intentions only lasted a few days.
The court heard she was sent to a psychiatric unit for several months after her son's death. She claimed several times to have been motivated by voices from the devil.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/mothe...108-2cdfm.html

[Grey Jorildyn]

Sounds like psychosis to me.

[Ashmada]

Sounds like religion to me.

[Ratatapa]

Sound likes Womens to me

[Jaybar]

Sounds like black text to me.

[shepardG]

Sounds like humanity to me.

[AidenCarby]

Sounds like bitches be crazy.

[Tricen]

Sounds about right to me.

[ronin sparthos]

One day the golden halls of BG will be graced with:

"Atheist kills son for not understanding string theory"

Not. Really.

[Brill Weave]

One day the golden halls of BG will be graced with:

"Atheist kills son for not understanding string theory"

Not. Really.

Pretty sure Mizango doesn't have a son.

[Correction]

Pretty sure Mizango doesn't have a son.

anymore

[Ksandra]

One day the golden halls of BG will be graced with:

"Atheist kills son for not understanding string theory"

Not. Really.

Ya because atheists kill their kids for "better" reasons than religion, amirite?



Sad story. I admit, however, I learned something new today:

was led sobbing from the dock.

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I hope they make her walk the plank.

Spoiler: show

yes I know it's only part of the courtroom, but still!

[noblemountain]

One day the golden halls of BG will be graced with:

"Atheist kills son for not understanding string theory"

Not. Really.

More like:

"Gamer kills son because he found him in the Gimp Players thread"

[ronin sparthos]

More like:

"Gamer kills son because he found him in the Gimp Players thread"

Gotta protect that family honor.

[ronin sparthos]

Ya because atheists kill their kids for "better" reasons than religion, amirite?

Atheists typically don't go toting around having a superior moral stance simply by professing belief in a supernatural entity.

If science is a "religion" as some theologians claim then where is the news on deaths caused by parents who are dissatisfied with their children's memorization of the periodic table? Or for not knowing what dihydrogen monoxide is? My daughter didn't memorize "The Origin of Species" so I drowned her in the bathtub.

[noblemountain]

I don't know about you, but when my son can't tell me the scientific name of an animal, I lock him in the closet with his science books and a picture of Charles Darwin on the wall looking at him sternly till he knows the entire family.

[Ksandra]

Atheists typically don't go toting around having a superior moral stance simply by professing belief in a supernatural entity.

If science is a "religion" as some theologians claim then where is the news on deaths caused by parents who are dissatisfied with their children's memorization of the periodic table? Or for not knowing what dihydrogen monoxide is? My daughter didn't memorize "The Origin of Species" so I drowned her in the bathtub.

again, so when they do kill their kids, it must be a better reason because it isn't about the periodic table, right?

I mean, it was kinda mentioned, but their are babies that die because of their parents too busy playing WoW to take care of the kid. That must be "better" because it wasn't them beating the kid up for religion.

a murder of an innocent is a murder of an innocent regardless the reason they use to defend themselves. Just because this woman used religion as a scapegoat doesn't make her any better or worse than those parents using WoW as a scapegoat.

[edit] and if you think kids don't get beaten up for getting bad grades in school (which includes bad science grades) then I'd like the address to the bubbleland you are living in.

[Ksandra]

This is BG, any form of murder is better than murder for religion. Even a clearly emotionally disturbed woman who probably would've found a reason to kill this kid anyway - religion's fault.

Ya I know. I mean, I will not deny that people use religion as a scapegoat a lot for their actions, but that doesn't mean that kids don't get beaten for not learning science shit.

Thing is, as I said, if a kid is hurt over science articles will just say "bad grades in school" Guess how one gets bad grades in school? By not doing things like memorizing the periodic table.


Just wish people on BG weren't so blind.

[Tyrath]

again, so when they do kill their kids, it must be a better reason because it isn't about the periodic table, right?

I mean, it was kinda mentioned, but their are babies that die because of their parents too busy playing WoW to take care of the kid. That must be "better" because it wasn't them beating the kid up for religion.

a murder of an innocent is a murder of an innocent regardless the reason they use to defend themselves. Just because this woman used religion as a scapegoat doesn't make her any better or worse than those parents using WoW as a scapegoat.

[edit] and if you think kids don't get beaten up for getting bad grades in school (which includes bad science grades) then I'd like the address to the bubbleland you are living in.

Talk about taking something and going overblown with it. He was saying kids get killed in the name of religion, but no kid ever dies in the name of atheism. Just like there are acts of terror in the name of religion, but no one ever blows up a building while yelling "FOR CARL SAGAN."

Does that mean every religious person is a bad parent? Of course not. But if you don't think religion can and does give crazy people leeway to be crazier, I'd like to know what bubbleland you are living in.

[Ksandra]

Talk about taking something and going overblown with it. He was saying kids get killed in the name of religion, but no kid ever dies in the name of atheism. Just like there are acts of terror in the name of religion, but no one ever blows up a building while yelling "FOR CARL SAGAN."

Does that mean every religious person is a bad parent? Of course not. But if you don't think religion can and does give crazy people leeway to be crazier, I'd like to know what bubbleland you are living in.

he specifically said kids don't get beaten for not doing things like memorizing the periodic table. Which is false. If a kid doesn't do things like that they get bad grades, and I would argue that getting beaten over poor grades is probably just as common if not more than kids that get beaten over not memorizing bible passages.