The other thing re. point 1 is that restraints were used at times, and who knows whether they may have been used when she was being burned? This is torture. It has an extreme effect on the victim, and the idea that "someone must have held her down" as though it's some kind of playground bullying or street violence is in the wrong ballpark and doesn't grasp the psychological effects on this poor girl. Her father could either gone ahead with the burning with her in such a state that she didn't resist (which I think is more likely given the extreme nature of his abuse), or he could have restrained her physically (less likely IMO but restraints were certainly used in other abuses he inflicted). How a judge could be sure that BB held her down is unclear.I was reading the judge's sentencing remarks.
The case against Beinash Batoul for murder rests to considerable extent on the view that
1. It takes two people to burn a child on the bottom with an iron - one to hold them down, one to hold the iron.
2. The teeth marks must have been BB's, because the two co-defendants plus SS's elder brother provided their dental impressions and it wasn't them, unlike BB who refused to provide hers.
The big problem with 1 is that it's not true. The idea is based on a lack of understanding of how the infliction of severe physical abuse over a long period of time by a person who is in a position of authority can cause terror. E.g. a much-used weapon can be shown and the victim can go into a state of shock, almost a paralysis, in which they'll let the abuser do anything. So I don't buy reason 1 at all. Urfan Sharif could easily have done this by himself. Perhaps he didn't and perhaps BB helped him, but I can't see that that is something to be sure about.
As for reason 2, well if BB really was the only person who could have done it, then OK she did it, but was she? It could be that not providing dental impressions was for the same reason as not giving evidence, part of the same possibly self-defeating policy.
I am only talking about the murder charge here, not the charge of causing or allowing a death.
Could bienash have a chance of appealing on this remark . I did feel the same how could the judge be sure she was held down by her and why not malik ? Unless one of the children statements ( if they gave any ) stated bienash sometimes held Sara down .The other thing re. point 1 is that restraints were used at times, and who knows whether they may have been used when she was being burned? This is torture. It has an extreme effect on the victim, and the idea that "someone must have held her down" as though it's some kind of playground bullying or street violence is in the wrong ballpark and doesn't grasp the psychological effects on this poor girl. Her father could either gone ahead with the burning with her in such a state that she didn't resist (which I think is more likely given the extreme nature of his abuse), or he could have restrained her physically (less likely IMO but restraints were certainly used in other abuses he inflicted). How a judge could be sure that BB held her down is unclear.
I didn't follow this trial or even pay any attention to the case until recently. Why didn't BB give evidence? Was it because she knew she'd be asked about bitemarks?
I was reading the judge's sentencing remarks.
The case against Beinash Batoul for murder rests to considerable extent on the view that
1. It takes two people to burn a child on the bottom with an iron - one to hold them down, one to hold the iron.
2. The teeth marks must have been BB's, because the two co-defendants plus SS's elder brother provided their dental impressions and it wasn't them, unlike BB who refused to provide hers.
The big problem with 1 is that it's not true. The idea is based on a lack of understanding of how the infliction of severe physical abuse over a long period of time by a person who is in a position of authority can cause terror. E.g. a much-used weapon can be shown and the victim can go into a state of shock, almost a paralysis, in which they'll let the abuser do anything. So I don't buy reason 1 at all. Urfan Sharif could easily have done this by himself. Perhaps he didn't and perhaps BB helped him, but I can't see that that is something to be sure about.
As for reason 2, well if BB really was the only person who could have done it, then OK she did it, but was she? It could be that not providing dental impressions was for the same reason as not giving evidence, part of the same possibly self-defeating policy.
I am only talking about the murder charge here, not the charge of causing or allowing a death.
Does she think anyone cares?
I care.
Because this murderer lives there like a princess.
It is so wrong IMO
that a murderer seems to have all these rights and still whinge
while her victim is dead,
robbed of life.
It is so wrong, so so wrong
that a prison doesn't seem to be a prison any more, but a cushy place like some say.
This situation seems to me abhorrent,
"upside down".
JMO