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Police Say Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to Protect Family Honor
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Police Say Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to Protect Family Honor
A Georgia man appeared in court Monday on charges he killed his own daughter for disgracing his family.
Chaudhry Rashid, wearing a redjumpsuit and shackles around his ankles, went before Chief Judge DaphneWalker at the Clayton County Magistrate Court where he was arraigned ona murder charge.
The54-year-old, who is of Pakistani descent, kept his head down as chargeswere read, and appeared to have difficulty understanding instructionsfrom the judge, possibly the result of a language barrier.
Histwo sons were also in attendance, watching their father from seats inthe rear of the courtroom, joined by two others. Rashid waved to theircorner as he shuffled slowly out, impeded by the shackles.
The25-year-old victim, Sandeela Kanwal, was wed in Pakistan in an arrangedmarriage. Police said Kanwal hadn't seen her husband, who lives inChicago, for months.
Accordingto police, there was "friction between father and victim" in the weeksleading up to the killing. Rashid had not spoken to his daughter inmore than two months.
Policesaid Rashid was so angered that his daughter planned to divorce herhusband that he killed her after a heated argument at the family'shome, FOX News affiliate MyFoxAtlanta reported.
Policewho arrived at the scene said they found Rashid's two sons at the endof the driveway and their father sitting behind a car smoking acigarette. Officers said that Rashid appeared "distraught and possiblymournful" and told police "my daughter is dead" when they arrived.
After entering the home, Kanwal's body was discovered in the doorway of a bedroom, cold to the touch, officials said.
Apolice report said that there were possible "ligature marks" indicatingstrangulation on the victim and noted that an iron and cord had beenfound near her body. A necklace was also found on a table downstairs,according to the report.
Rashid was taken to the Clayton County jail where he reportedly confessed to strangling Kanwal.
The news shocked neighbors and friends.
"Thefamily is very upset and stressed," said Shahid Malik of the PakistaniAmerican Community of Atlanta. Malik told MyFoxAtlanta that he met withthe family Sunday and said they were all traumatized.
Rashidwill be back in court Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. EDT. His bond hearing isscheduled for July 25 at 8 a.m., with a preliminary hearing July 24.
Click here to read more from FOX affiliate MyFoxAtlanta.com
FOX News' Marianne Silber and David Lewkowict contributed to this report.
Comments
Sharia law, islamic "mercy killings", and such are far beyond domestic violence.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/584241.html
It's a human rights issue.
The article doesn't say if that guy was Hindu or muslim, but India has plenty of muslims.
When did domestic violence NOT become a human rights issue? This type of thinking is why women in America have to run away and hide in shelters. This is why when Maria Lauterback cried for help, nobody paid attention until her burned body was found in a shallow grave. Don't kid youself about Human Rights in this country. Homeless people are beat up in the street. Poor people rot in jail because they can't afford the proper defense. If there is violence and injustice against a person, then to me it's always a Human Rights issue.
These women probably heard the same words from a judge who labeled their problems as "only" Domestic Violence and issued a restraining order or told them to get marriage counseling.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/5079610/detail.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206274,00.html
http://www.nbc6.net/news/9236573/detail.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E5DA143BF936A3575BC0A96E958260
Emily Writes that this killing is "far worse" than Domestic Violence. What could be worse than being set on fire and burning to death? Tenaj says "I don't get it" because I compared murdering your daughter for the honor of your family with domestic violence. This saddens me. If this man was a born & raised in the heartland, what would you call it then? If a White man shot his daughter because she got pregnant by a Black man & felt it "dishonored his family" would you say to send all the farmers back to Kansas? This so-called War on Terror has created a whole new form of bigotry.
Apparantly some of you believe that somehow domestic violence and honor killing is equivalent. Wrong very wrong.
In civilized cultures, any form of violence is not tolerated.
Where there is honor killing, it is tolerated and goes unpunished.
Where they chop off heads for adultery and stealing is where honor killing is tolerated.
Equating civilized society to these trogladyte, animalistic, bloodthirsty cultures is ignorant and ludricous.
If their DEVIL WORSHIPPING religion teaches them that "honor killings" are not only ok but called for, let them take theirselves and their religion back to whatever islamic hell hole they came from. I won't cap islam, muslim, allah, or mohammed).
I say make this creep undergo a sex change operation and send him back to Pakistan.
Is it right? I don't think so. I would hope that someday both sides would think about the impact on others their actions have. But Murder in response. No. go get an ice cream! Don't come back.
I think it goes beyond religion, but older cultural relics that have for whatever reason refused to evolve. Maybe these cultural clashes will prove healthy after all! I think it's a Human rights violation.
I'm with JP, and I think she's right!
"Jury Sentences Rai to Life Without Parole on wsbradio.com
(WSB Radio/AP) -- A Mississippi businessman born in India who was convicted of plotting to have his black daughter-in-law killed weeks after she wed his son has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
WSB's Veronica Waters reports that jurors deliberated for less than two hours on Friday before delivering their verdict in Fulton County Superior Court. A jury convicted Chiman Rai on Thursday of masterminding the death of Sparkle Michelle Rai. Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty.
During the trial, prosecutors argued Chiman Rai believed the 22-year-old woman would bring down the family stock.
Sparkle Rai was found strangled with a vacuum cord and stabbed more than a dozen times weeks after her March 2000 wedding to Rai's son, Ricky Rai.
Jurors reached the verdict on the second day of deliberations, finding the 68-year-old Chiman Rai guilty on seven charges, including felony murder and burglary. "
http://wsbradio.com/news/062708rai.html
Isolated incidents of people from various groups are evil and tragic enough, but they do not portray people doing things like this as part of an organized belief system.
When people who have come to the U.S. sincerely believe they can committ "honor" killings (some definition of honor) and ignore our laws, they don't belong here.
End of story, this one now locked.
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