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19 March 2024

Crime: 20-day-old baby sold to beggar for Dh7

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INDIA: An unmarried woman who gave birth to a girl in the Indian metropolis of Chennai, sold off her newborn to a beggar for Rs 100 (approximately Dh7).

The newborn was to be used as a tool of sympathy by the beggar, reports The Times of India.

An alert police sub-inspector was suspicious when she saw the beggar in action with the 20-day-old baby. She rescued the infant and the beggar was subsequently arrested.

The child's mother who made the shocking decision to sell her newborn has meanwhile refused to take her child back as she was scared of her relatives' reaction. The child was the result of her affair with a man, unknown to her family.

She already has a 12-year-old daughter from her husband who passed away a few years ago.

The mother and the beggar made the horrific deal in the hospital where the woman gave birth.


'I just choked him, no apparent reason', says killer baby-sitter

FLORIDA: A woman who was a professional babysitter pleaded guilty and accepted that she killed five babies who were left in her charge by strangling them. The casual way in which the baysitter frmom hell choked her six victims has horrified the residents of Florida.

She once worked as a 77-year-old man's housekeeper and he too died a myseterious death. She accepted that she had strangulated him too as she had just 'got the urge' to kill him.

Even as infant after infant died a few hours or days after they were left in her care even for a few minutes, no one suspected the five feet and nine inches woman of simply killing the tiny infants.

It was only when she was hired for a night by a mother of a little boy who wanted to celebrate a rare night out as her baby had valiantly fought a pneumonia attack and was back in a fine shape.

The woman returned a a celebratory night only to be told by the babysitter that her 10-week-old baby was dead.

"Crib death, or a relapse of the baby’s respiratory ailment, could certainly have been the cause. But his baby-sitter’s history made the medical examiner ponder another possibility - murder," reports NY Daily News. He was the fifth baby to die under her care.

The babysitter was investigated and charged for causing the death of her charges.

She pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to two concurrent life sentences for the murder of the infants she was baby sitting for.

 

Family jailed, to be lashed for abusing cops

A Saudi court sentenced a man, his wife and two teenaged daughters to several months in jail and ordered them lashed after they were convicted of abusing and assaulting members of the Gulf Kingdom’s religious police.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice had tried to rebuke the two daughters at a shopping centre in the capital Riyadh for making indecent acts, seen by shoppers as seductive.

“One of the two girls then took off her gown and head cover and spat at the Commission members. Her sister also spat at them. Their mother later came and threw her shoe at them,” the Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq said.

“When their father came later, he tried to assault those members, swore at them and said to them ‘it’s not your business, we are free to do what we want.”

The paper said the girl who took off her gown was sentenced to five months in prison and 120 lashes while her sister was sentenced to one month in jail and 30 lashes. The mother got two months jail term and ordered lashed 60 times while the father was ordered jailed for one month and lashed 45 times.

 

13 camels on way to beauty contest killed by truck

A large truck carrying cement knocked over 13 female camels as they were crossing the road on their way to a beauty contest in Saudi Arabia.

Newspapers said all the 13 camels, with a value of SRmillions, perished on the road in the eastern oasis town of Nofood.

The accident also resulted in serious damage to their owner’s four-wheel Lexus car, with a value of around SR30,0,000, they said.

“The camels were crossing the road ahead of their owner’s car on their way to a camel beauty contest when the truck hit them…they were all killed,” Sharq daily said.