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29 March 2024

Man punishes wife by shaving off her hair

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An Afghan man in Saudi Arabia tied his wife up and shaved her head off as a punishment for disobeying him, a newspaper reported.

Police arrested the man, in his 50s, in the western town of Makkah after a hospital report showed his wife also suffered from bruises.

“Besides shaving all her hair off, he also punched her many times as she tried to resist…he also caused a cut in her scalp while shaving her head by the razor,” Alriyadh Arabic language daily said.

Mum burns baby’s eyes with bleach

WASHINGTON: A 14-month-old baby's eyes were glued shut after the mother doused her daughter's eyes with bleach.

The 29-year-old mother has been charged with first-degree assault of her child, reports New York Daily News. She pleaded not guilty.

The toddler was diagnosed with eye infection in the middle of March. The doctors were told that the kid had scratched her eyes while she was playing in the barn. The mother was given eye dops and antibiotics which were to be given to the toddler to treat her infection. However, the mother tried to cure her with bleach water for weeks.

The toddler was admitted in a hospital with major head injury. The hospital workers suspected that the child might have been abused and they informed the authorities. The detectives questioned the mother as to why the toddler's eyes were swollen and shut.

When the mother showed the officials what she had been administering to the kid's eyes, they conducted a wrist test by using a drop of the so-called 'medication'. The detective's wrist was burnt immediately and they realised that something was definitely wrong and the chemical should not have been going into the child's eyes.

The child lost vision in her right eye.
 
Man forgotten in cell says he drank urine
 
SAN DIEGO:  A San Diego college student who federal drug agents forgot and left in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet said Tuesday that he drank his own urine to survive.

Daniel Chong also said that he bit into his glasses to break them and tried to use a shard to scratch "Sorry Mom" into his arm, according to U-T San Diego.

The 24-year-old University of California, San Diego, engineering student was swept up as one of nine suspects in an April 21 drug raid that netted 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons.

Chong said federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents told him he would be let go. One agent even promised to drive him home from the DEA field office in Kearny Mesa, he said.

Instead, he was returned to a holding cell to await release. DEA spokeswoman Amy Roderick said he was accidentally left there.

Chong said he could hear the muffled voices of agents outside his five-by-10-foot windowless cell and the door of the next cell being opened and closed. He kicked and screamed as loud as he could, but apparently, his cries for help went unheard.

"I had to recycle my own urine," he said. "I had to do what I had to do to survive."

When he was found on April 25, he was taken to a hospital and treated for cramps, dehydration and a perforated lung - the result of ingesting the broken glass.

"When they opened the door, one of them said 'Here's the water you've been asking for," Chong said. "But I was pretty out of it at the time."

Chong also ingested a white powder DEA agents said was left in the cell accidentally and later identified as methamphetamine.

The agency hasn't commented on Chong's claim that he was without basic necessities for days.

Chong's attorney, Eugene Iredale, said he plans to file a claim against the federal government, and if it is denied he will proceed with filing a federal lawsuit. (AP)

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