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Man "martyrs" children to spite wife
An Egyptian schoolteacher hacked his three children to death "as martyrs" to spite his bossy wife for years of humiliation and abuse, a government-owned newspaper reported on Friday. The 51-year-old man from Minya in southern Egypt confessed to killing his son and two daughters with an axe as they played blind-manâs bluff, all three blindfolded, the Al-Ahram daily said. The unnamed man was arrested in Cairo after fleeing to the capitalâs Khan Khalili tourist district following the grisly crime."My wife is to blame for everything. She took over everything: our seven-storey building, car, the money in the bank, the product of 12 years working abroad," the paper quoted the manâs confession as saying. "She considered us, our children and me, as private property," it added. "She always had the last word, up to the point where she ordered me to spend the night in the park near the house. I ended up hating her, but I adored my children, before whom I felt I was no longer a man. Therefore I decided to sacrifice them as martyrs to break my wifeâs heart," the newspaper quoted the man as saying Posted by: TS 2004-04-03 |
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