Man handed prison term for molesting his daughters By Rana Husseini

AMMAN — The Criminal Court has sentenced a 50-year-old Arab national to nine years and eight months in prison after convicting him of molesting his two daughters for the past 14 years.The defendant, who was arrested in January 2006, was convicted of molesting his two daughters 1,085 times.The factory employee told his daughters that what he was doing with them was normal, according to court papers. [Read more]

9 years are certainly not enough! He should be locked up for the rest of his life unless he can compensate his daughters in someway for 14 years of molesting!!

Father charged with premeditated murder of his daughter By Rana Husseini

AMMAN — The criminal prosecutor on Monday charged a 68-year-old father with the premeditated murder of his daughter for reasons the suspect claimed were related to family honour, official sources said.

The 26-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, was shot six times in the head and neck, reportedly by her father, at their family’s home on Monday morning, one official source said.

“When the police and criminal prosecutor arrived at the scene, the father fired several rounds in the air, saying he was celebrating the killing of his daughter,” the official source told The Jordan Times.

“I have cleared the family’s name and cleansed my honour. Let everyone in my town know that I killed my daughter for this reason,” the official source quoted the suspect as saying.

The victim was allegedly involved in an affair with a married man, who sought her hand in marriage six months prior to the incident, according to the source.

The victim’s family refused because the man was married, the source said, adding that almost two weeks ago, they discovered she was pregnant.

“The family took their daughter to a different city and arranged for her to undergo an abortion and an operation to restore her virginity,” the source said.

For the past two weeks, the victim’s family locked her up in the house and on Monday they decided to kill her, the source added.

Pathologist Awad Tarawneh, who performed an autopsy on the victim, removed four bullets from her skull and indicated that two other bullets penetrated and exited her lungs, the source said. “Tarawneh also established that the victim underwent an abortion and hymen- restoration surgery recently,” the source said.

Coroners extracted bullets from the floor and walls of the victim’s room, where the reported murder occurred.

“It seems the victim was run from one place to the other in an attempt to avoid the bullets, because coroners found several bullets on the floor and other locations in her room,” the source said.

There was evidence that some rounds were fired while she was lying injured on the floor, the source added.

The victim became the seventh person reportedly murdered in a so-called honour crime in the country since the beginning of the year, according to judicial and medical sources. [Source]

Who’s to say she wasn’t engaged to that married man then her family changed their mind? they found out that she’s no longer a virgin, and decided first to make her undergo the restoration operation, BUT they figured people will still know, or simply were too mad at her to let her get away with it. Either way, it’s really sad to know that a family member can and would kill another for any reason. Even sadder the fact that the father was proud of what he’d done.