A Muslim mother in Wales stands accused of beating her seven-year-old son to death because he failed to memorize the Koran. Prosecutors claim Sara Ege used a stick to beat her seven-year-old son “like a dog” if he could not recite passages from the Islamic text.
Currently Sara Ege, 33, is on trial for killing her son, Yaseen Ali Ege, and attempting to pervert the course of justice by burning his body in a fire at their home in Cardiff. Her husband, Yousef Ali Ege, 38, is also on trial, charged with failing to protect his son. Yaseen died on July 12, 2010.
On Thursday, November 1, the court was toldhow Sara Ege would hit Yaseen with a hammer, a rolling pin and a slipper as well as repeatedly punching him for failing to memorize and recite passages from the Koran.
She would also allegedly lock her son in the shed, tie him to a door, and force him to do push ups if he failed at his studies.
The court also heard that in the months after Yaseen's death Ege told a doctor she had been told to kill her son by Shaitan - an Islamic name for the devil - and that she felt 100 per cent better after he died.
In a video recording of her interview with police, Mrs Ege told them:
“I was trying to teach him the Koran.
“I was getting more and more frustrated. If he didn’t read it properly I would be very angry — I would hit him.
“We had a high target. I wanted him to learn 35 pages in three months.
“I promised him a new bike if he could do it. But Yaseen wasn’t very good — after a year of practice he had only learnt a chapter.”
The trial continues next week.
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