Saudi Man kills dad over teen's marriage

Riyadh - A greedy Saudi man waited for his 85-year-old father to go to bed then used a massive palm date branch to club him to death after he was infuriated by his father’s opposition to the marriage of his teenage daughter to an old man. Showan, 50, had already been slammed by local newspapers when he forced his 14-year-old daughter, Nura, to marry an 80-year-old man in November in return for a dowry of SR17,000 ($4,600) paid by the bridegroom. His father, Mohammed Ateen, told newspapers in November that he had strongly opposed the marriage of his grand daughter and would try to get her divorced. Despite her father’s objection, his efforts succeeded after an unknown man paid the dowry money back to her old husband in return for a divorce. “Although Showan used that dowry money to buy a car, he was so greedy that he started again this year to think of selling his daughter to another old man who can pay more money,” Okaz Arabic language daily said on Sunday. “When he found another 80-year-old man who is willing to pay and marry his 14-year-old daughter, his father rebuked him and told him that Nura will never marry an old man as long as he lives…so Showan decided to get rid of his father.” Showan, a resident of a tiny village near the southern town of Sabya, waited for his father to go to bed and followed him into his room. When the old man turned the light off and slept, Showan clubbed him with a large palm tree branch on the head, Okaz said, adding that Ateen died before arrival in hospital. The paper described Showan as a greedy man and said Ateen “paid his life in defence of his minor grand daughter to prevent her marriage to an old man.” Full Story>>
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