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‘Ray of light’ was under pressure to pray, neighbours say
By René Bruemmer, The Gazette October 11, 2010
Family and friends place a notice for members of the media outside the apartment complex of the family where a 13-year-old girl died over the weekend, a few days after a slap from her 71-year-old father that reportedly placed her into a coma.
Photograph by: Vincenzo D’Alto, The Gazette
This story has been updated.
MONTREAL – A 13-year-old Longueuil girl died Saturday night as a result of injuries she sustained Wednesday when police say her 71-year-old father slapped her and she went into a coma.
Police said Mousaa Sidime, who was arrested for aggravated assault and has been detained since the incident, could now face a more serious charge when he appears in court Tuesday.
The girl, whom neighbours identified as Noutene Sidime, was found by emergency responders shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday at her family dwelling on Chambly Rd. in Old Longueuil when the elderly father called police to say he had slapped his daughter, Longueuil police Constable Mark David said.
“When we got there the girl was bleeding around her nose and she has been in a coma ever since,” David said.
Shocked neighbours Monday described the girl as a “ray of light” who played happily with their children and used to give hugs to some of the other mothers when she came home from school.
But neighbour Linda Robert said Noutene had been quieter in the last two years. Her father was demanding, Robert said, and could be heard sometimes yelling at the children or his wife. On the evening that she was struck, neighbours said her father was calling in to recite her prayers, as he often did. She was reluctant to go, as she often was, neighbours said.
“Even when she was young, she hated going in for her prayers,” Robert said.
David said police were informed Monday that the girl died in hospital about 10 p.m. Saturday.
He said it will be up to a crown prosecutor to decide if the man will face a more serious charge. He was scheduled to be arraigned on the charge of aggravated assault at Longueuil courthouse Tuesday.
More details to come.
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The father had to hit her repeatably to do that much damage, how long did he beat her with her family watching? And can the other family members who helped by doing nothing be charged with a crime?
The trial details should be revealing indeed. That is why I put single quotes around the word ‘slap’ in the headlines. I am not aware of any healthy person or even unhealthy one who was killed by a ‘slap’.
Just another horror story from a religious concentration camp called Islam.
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/hadith/abudawud/002.sat.html#002.0494