Dad locks girl in bathroom for 16 hours

An Afghan man in Saudi Arabia locked his 17-year-old daughter in the bathroom for nearly 16 hours after he saw a mobile phone with her before she escaped and ran away, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

The unnamed girl went straight to the police and told them she had escaped from home in the western town of Taif because of her father’s violence, 'Sabq' said.

The girl said her father beat her up and locked her inside the bathroom for 16 hours before he let her out when his mother visited them.“Police summoned the father and made him write a statement not to resort to violence against his daughter again,” the paper aid.

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