Custodial dad locked daughter in bathroom for ten years (Palestine)

Strange that the victim is named but her custodial father is an UNNAMED DAD. If dad abused her brother, then why would anybody think it was safe to give him custody of the daughter? That doesn't make a whit of sense. Why didn't the aunt tip off the police before ten years were up? Nobody thought it was strange that the girl was never seen in public? There is a lot that's not being told here.

And get this. The police claim it's "unclear" as to why she was locked up? There is no reason, morons!

The girl is now living with her mother, but I'm sure she is severely disturbed from all the years of torture and confinement.

http://www.emirates247.com/offbeat/crazy-world/father-locked-daughter-in-the-bathroom-for-10-years-2012-01-24-1.439149

Father locked daughter in the bathroom for 10 years
Girl beaten, barely fed and let out only in the middle of the night to do housework

By Staff/AgenciesPublished Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Palestinian police have freed a young woman whose father kept her locked in the bathroom of their house for about a decade.

Spokesman Adnan Damiri said the 20-year-old woman was in a "deplorable" condition when she was found on Saturday. Damiri said on Monday it remains unclear why she was locked up.

Baraa Melhem, 20, revealed that she spent the decade by listening to the radio that her father had given her and by eating an apple that she got to eat every day.

Her father locked her up in the bathroom after she ran away from home to escape the torture at the age of 10. The police caught her and brought her back home. Ever since then, her father would lock her up in a bathroom that measured about 3ft-by-3ft. Her father also forced her to sign a statement saying she didn't want to go back to school, she told Daily Mail.

She would be allowed to get out of the bathroom only in the middle of the night so that she could do the house work. She would be locked inside again around dawn. She did not see any sunlight for about a decade.

Baraa was given only a blanket, radio and a razor blade by her father and stepmother, and both of them encouraged her to kill herself, the daily said. The girl was often physically assaulted and her father would shave her head and eyebrows to punish her further.

He would often threaten to rape her till she got pregnant so that he could kill her in the name of honor killing.

After about a decade of torture, the police officials were finally tipped off by an aunt. When she was found locked away in the bathroom, she was wearing tattered clothes that were on the point of degeneration.

Baraa is enjoying her freedom at her mother's place. Her parents were divorced when she was barely 4 years old. Her father got her custody and her mother got the custody of the couple's son. The mother told the daily that she took her son with her because the father used to spray perfume in her son's eyes. At that time, the father never abused his daughter and she thought Baraa would be safe with her father.

The 49-year-old father, an Arab, and her stepmother were detained and handed over to police.

Police spokesman said the father was suspected of physically abusing the young woman. He is being held in a jail pending a court hearing.