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Kuwaiti 'slit daughter's throat' over suspected sex
January 27, 2005
A Kuwaiti man has reportedly confessed to killing his 14-year-old daughter
because he believed she was having sex.
Adnan Enezi - an employee in the Islamic Affairs ministry - had just returned
from the pilgrimage to Mecca.
He allegedly bound and blindfolded his daughter, Haifa, knelt her down in front
of her two brothers and sister and then cut her throat.
Forensic tests showed Haifa was still a virgin, police sources said. Mr Enezi
is being questioned about the case.
Thousands of women are killed by relatives each year in the Middle East and
Asia in so-called honour crimes - usually over suspected adultery, pre-marital
sex or after having being raped, or marrying without family consent.
The suspect - who is also undergoing mental health tests - was separated from
his wife, and has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for 18 months for his
extremist activities, the al-Rai al-Am newspaper reported.
The daily said that after cutting Haifa's throat the first time, he swapped the
knife for one with a sharper blade as she bled and screamed in front of her
siblings.
Al-Qabas daily said the brothers and sister fled from the house after the
murder, while their uncle took their sister to a hospital, but she had already
died.
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