Dad beats teenage daughter to death...over tongue stud (Ntuzuma, South Africa)

UNNAMED DAD has been arrested for beating his teenage daughter to death over a tongue stud. He has been charged with murder.

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Girl killed for tongue stud
November 02 2009 at 07:10AM

By Mercury Reporter

An Ntuzuma man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly beat his teenage daughter to death on learning that she had defied him and persisted in wearing a tongue stud.

KwaMashu police Constable Mumsy Mfeka said the girl's father knew of the piercing, and had told her to remove it. She said the father became more upset on learning that she had been wearing the stud to school.

Mfeka said: "When her father discovered that she had been wearing the stud, he asked why she had been disobedient and he than beat her up with an unplugged electrical cable. When the father learnt that his daughter was not moving, he rushed her to a nearby clinic, where she was declared dead on arrival."

Captain Khephu Ndlovu said the father later handed himself over to the police and was charged with murder.

The incident is being investigated.