A Saudi man suffering from infertility went to an orphanage in the Gulf Kingdom and adopted a five-year-old boy after assuring his guardians he would look after him.
A few months later, the boy died in hospital after he was tortured by his new father.
The 33-year-old Saudi, who is married, confessed to police that he beat up and tortured the boy but claimed he only wanted to treat his involuntary urination.
“The boy was admitted to hospital in Riyadh, suffering from burns and bruises all over his body and examination showed he was burned and tortured…doctors tried hard to save him but he died later,” Okaz daily said.
12-year-old boy caught twice smuggling drugs to Saudi
A 12-year-old Yemeni boy has been arrested twice by Saudi police and deported back home after he was caught smuggling Qat, a drug-like herb widely used in Yemen but is banned in conservative Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Police seized the boy within a group of men sneaking into the Gulf Kingdom across the border with Yemen to smuggle Qat, which is grown in Yemen and other countries.
Sabq Arabic language daily said the boy confessed to smuggling Qat but told Saudi police the stuff has been supplied to him by his uncle.
“It was not the first time I was caught…it was the second time…they have sent me back home again but I will return to Saudi Arabia again and again,” the boy said.
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