Bangladeshi Man Sentenced to Death in Acid Attack on Wife http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93186,00.html DHAKA, Bangladesh — A Bangladeshi court sentenced a man to death by hanging for hurling acid on his 9-year-old wife, leaving her partially deaf and blind, one of her lawyers said Tuesday. The accused, Swapan Gazi, poured a glass of acid on the girl's face and head after she refused to leave her parents' house for his, lawyer Salma Ali said. The attack happened in 1998 at a slum in the industrial town of Tongi (search) in Gazipur (search) district, 20 miles north of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka (search). A legal aid and human rights group run by women lawyers took up the girl's case. The Gazipur court also ordered him to pay $900 in damages to the victim. "This ruling will help deter others who commit such crimes," Salma Ali of the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association (search). The accused had pleaded innocent. His lawyers plan to appeal the verdict in a higher court. Gazi, in his twenties, forced the third grader into marrying him without her parents consent, in 1998. The girl's father, a poor rickshaw puller, refused to let her set up housekeeping with Gazi, saying she could not leave her family until she came of age. Marriages of girls under 18 — and men under 21 — are illegal under Bangladesh's secular laws. But underage marriages are deemed valid under religious laws in the Muslim-majority country. Most births go unregistered in Bangladesh, and poor parents often flout the law and marry off their underage children, falsifying their ages. A month after their marriage, Gazi went to the girl's house and insisted that she come away with him. He threw acid on her when she refused. Neighbors who heard her cries caught Gazi and turned him in to police. She received treatment in Dhaka, and later in Spain, for severe acid burns on her scalp, face and throat. She lost an eye and hearing on her left side. Her parents left Tongi soon after the attack. Now 14, the girl is back in school, in the seventh grade, Ali said. The trial took nearly five years to complete; Bangladeshi courts are often swamped with cases and long delays in hearings are common. In 2002, at least 315 women and girls in Bangladesh were victims of acid attacks, usually committed by jilted lovers or angry husbands seeking revenge.
Let him live, just pour a glass of acid down the front of his boxers, he won't want to live after that.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Acid enema. Thats all I have to say. Acid enema. And may the 70-some virgins that meet him in the afterlife all be hideous male demons who will sodomize him for all eternity. (Unless he likes that sort of thing) Barbed genitalia maybe?
People in bangladesh are starving. Where the hell did this guy get a glassful of acid to begin with??
Easily It's available and super-cheap in that part of the world. That's part of why acid attacks occur more often among the poor. The rich just have the body disposed of, and the middle, as I understand it, hacks women to death with machetes. Yes, those last two sentences were at least partly sarcastic. But, yeah ... the acid is easy to get in various backwaters.
Heard of this unfortunate incident a while ago. There was another such case involving a much older women. Her husband threw acid on her face while she slept with their baby. Her and her friend appeared on Oprah to plead her case and ask to fight against such tyrannical practices. Much more penal then death IMO.
