Wednesday, January 09, 2013

A Devoted and Loving Mother

Woman gets 17 years for fatally beating son

Britain

A British judge on Monday sentenced a woman he called a "devoted and loving mother" to at least 17 years in prison for beating her son to death in 2010 after he failed to memorize passages from the Qur'an.

A jury at Cardiff Crown Court in Wales convicted 33-year-old Sara Ege last month of murdering seven-year-old Yaseen and burning his body to destroy the evidence.

Yaseen

 Judge Wyn Williams said Ege beat Yaseen repeatedly with a stick over several months, causing internal injuries.

The judge agreed with defence arguments about India-born Ege's state of mind, saying she was "a devoted and loving mother" who suffered from depression.

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