Jill Reilly
Daily Mail
February 12, 2013
- Lama al-Ghamdi’s back was broken and she had been raped and burned
- She died in October from her injuries after seven months in hospital
- Fayhan al-Ghamdi admitted using a cane and cables to inflict the horrific injuries after doubting his daughter’s virginity
- Saudi Arabia’s Royal Family believed to have blocked al-Ghamdi’s release
A Saudi celebrity cleric who allegedly raped and murdered his five-year-old daughter has claimed he injured her because he doubted she was a virgin.
Lama al-Ghamdi died in October having suffered multiple injuries including a crushed skull, severe burns, broken ribs and fractured left arm as well as extensive bruising.
Fayhan al-Ghamdi admitted using a cane and cables to inflict the horrific injuries after doubting his daughter’s virginity, according to the campaign group Women to Drive.
After the case attracted international attention, members of the Saudi Arabia’s Royal Family are now believed to have blocked al-Ghamdi’s release and ensured that a stronger sentence is upheld.
Women to Drive said the preacher, a regular guest on Muslim television networks, had his daughter checked up by a medic after doubting her virginity.
It has been alleged that she was repeatedly raped and had been burned to cover up the injuries she had sustained from the horrific sexual abuse.
Yesterday Sayeda Hamadari, the girl’s mother, who is divorced from the cleric, said she wanted her ex-husband to be put to death, reported The Times.
‘I want him killed. I want the full Islamic punishment. This is God’s law,’ she said yesterday.
‘My dear child is dead, and all I want now is justice so I can close my eyes and know she didn’t die in vain,’ Sayeda Hamadari told CNN, adding that her daughter was ‘brutally tortured in the most shocking ways.’
‘The state needs to even consider taking his two children from him and his wife away because I fear for their lives,’ she added.