A husband and spouse in northeast Pakistan have been arrested in connection to the loss of life of a 13-year-old woman who was employed as a maid for the couple.
Rashid Shafiq and his spouse Sana have been detained on suspicion of homicide, whereas a Quran instructor who labored for them was additionally arrested, the BBC reported on Tuesday, Feb. 18.
The sufferer, recognized solely as Iqra, allegedly stole chocolate from the couple earlier than being tortured to loss of life, in keeping with a preliminary police investigation.
The teenager died final Wednesday, Feb. 12.
The Quran instructor reportedly introduced Iqra to a hospital however left after falsely telling the workers that Iqra’s dad was deceased and her mom was not energetic in her life. It’s unclear if the instructor believed the dad and mom’ standing to be the reality.
Iqra’s father, a 45-year-old farmer named Sana Ullah, instructed the BBC that the 13-year-old was working for the Shafiq household as a result of Ullah was in debt. The kid made roughly $28 per thirty days.
“I felt utterly shattered inside when she died,” Ullah instructed the BBC.
Based on the grieving father, police contacted him final Wednesday to inform him his daughter had been hospitalized. When he arrived on the medical facility, Iqra was unconscious and died minutes later from a number of accidents.
Preliminary findings steered the torture and abuse had been frequent. “Photos and movies obtained by the BBC confirmed a number of fractures in her legs and arms, in addition to a severe harm to her head,” the outlet reported.
Human rights activist Shehr Bano condemned the abuse through social media.
“My coronary heart cries tears of blood. What number of… are subjected to violence of their houses every single day for a trivial job of some thousand?” she wrote on X. “How lengthy will the poor proceed to decrease their daughters into graves on this method?”
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Bano’s publish contained video and a photograph of the 13-year-old’s accidents as she lay in her hospital mattress. The hashtag #JusticeforIqra was included within the tweet.
Whereas Ullah instructed the BBC he needs to see “these chargeable for my daughter’s loss of life punished,” the outlet says, “It is uncommon for suspects to be efficiently prosecuted” for some of these circumstances.
An post-mortem will decide the complete extent of Iqra’s accidents.
