Why was this boy's beating death called "manslaughter"? It sure sounds like murder to me.
How much you want to bet that the mother was not home because of ongoing violence against HER?
The killer dad is identified as MAHAD AHMED.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mahad-ahmead-beat-son-death-3169359
Father beat three-year-old son to death for vomiting in his bed in "volcanic explosion of rage"
Feb 21, 2014 13:08
By Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Mahad Ahmed jailed for 10 years as court hears how little Mohammed's catastrophic injuries were likened to those normally seen in car crash victims
A three-year-old boy was beaten to death by his own father when his lactose intolerant son vomited after being fed milk.
Mahad Ahmed, 43, beat his son Mohammed so badly that pathologists said his injuries were like those normally seen in car crash victims.
He was today jailed for 10 years for manslaughter after being cleared of murder by a jury.
Judge Mr Justice Jay told the Old Bailey the attack was a "volcanic explosion of rage which came on suddenly and dissipated suddenly".
A pathologist said that as a result of the attack, Mohammed suffered a lacerated liver, bleeding on the brain and fractured ribs.
Mr Jay said: "I believe that you punched Mohammed hard in the chest and stomach and then kicked him or stamped upon him when he was on the floor.
"It is likely that the back of his head struck a hard object, the wall or floor when you punched, kicked or stamped upon him.
"The injuries indicate a number of blows were struck which occurred in rapid succession.
"You lost your temper after Mohammed vomited all over the bedclothes, duvet, pillow and his tee-shirt.
"He had already vomited at least twice that day and your patience, which by then was wearing then, finally and explosively ran out.
"In short these actions were committed in a violent rage.
"It was a rage which erupted suddenly and very quickly subsided when you realised what you had done and cried out for help.'
He added: "Your intention that evening was to punish your son and inflict on him a degree of physical harm for the wrong you believed he had done.
"It was an intention which did not fall a long way short of the intention necessary for the offence of murder."
Mr Justice Jay said Ahmed has not expressed "any genuine remorse" and fails to accept responsibility for killing his child.
He added: "This was extreme, sudden and short-lived loss of self-control whose terrible consequences will be suffered by you and the rest of your family indefinitely."
He added: "You knew Mohammed tended to vomit after drinking milk and I believe that you stubbornly ignored medical advice to stop giving him dairy products."
He said the aggregating features are Mohammed's 'vulnerability because of his age' and that his father 'was in a supreme position of responsibility'.
The Ahmed family lived in one room of a mid-terrace house and shared their kitchen and bathroom with another Somalian family.
Mohammed's mother was staying away from home at the time of the attack.
Neighbours reported hearing bangs and a child crying on the day he died and Ahmed was seen clearing up sick in the kitchen.
He claims he went to get his son a potty and when he returned he found him on the floor.
Mohammed was found lying lifeless and naked on the bedroom floor.
He was in cardiac and respiratory arrest and could not be revived by paramedics or medical staff.
Robert Girling defending said: "This is man who has lost almost everything as a result of what happened. He has already paid a high price."
Ahmed, from Streatham, South London, was cleared of murder but convicted of the lesser alternative of manslaughter after a nine-day trial at the Old Bailey.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Stepdad found guilty in son's torture death (Buffalo, New York)
The first paragraph makes it sound like step daddy ALI-MOHAMED MOHAMUD just bopped the kid over the head with a rolling pin.
Uh no. He TORTURED THIS POOR BOY TO DEATH. The boy's injuries were so severe that he had a least 4 injuries that by themselves could have been fatal.
Typical media minimization of male violence. All while Mom was at work on a double shift to support this killer's lazy lying @$$.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NY-stepfather-s-lawyer-He-didn-t-mean-to-kill-son-3961215.php
NY stepfather guilty in son's beating death
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press
Updated 10:55 p.m., Thursday, October 18, 2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A jury Thursday convicted a New York father of second-degree murder for shattering his 10-year-old stepson's skull with a rolling pin, rejecting defense claims that he was just trying to get the child to do homework and didn't mean to kill him.
A state Supreme Court jury in Buffalo deliberated about three hours before finding Ali-Mohamed Mohamud guilty.
"Justice has been done," prosecutor Thomas Finnerty said. In closing arguments earlier, he'd mocked the idea that there was no intent to cause death, a key element for a second-degree murder conviction.
"How about intent to slaughter?" Finnerty asked.
With the mother of victim Abdifatah Mohamud and other relatives crying quietly in the courtroom, the prosecutor had walked jurors through the prolonged and grisly killing that occurred in the family's basement April 17 while the boy's mother worked the second shift cleaning offices in downtown Buffalo.
After the boy known as Abdi had tried to run away, Mohamud stabbed him with a kitchen knife, tried to drown him in the bathroom and brought him into the basement where he gagged him with a sock and duct tape, bound his hands with an electrical cord and struck him nearly 70 times with a hardwood rolling pin, stopping only when the child was obviously dead on the floor.
Finnerty recounted a medical examiner's testimony that Abdi suffered four lethal injuries among damage covering his entire body, including a blow to the head that had "internally decapitated" him, separating the skull from the spinal column.
The child's mother, Shukri Bile, gave birth to Abdi while living at a refugee camp in Uganda, having fled violence in Somalia that killed her older children's father. Bile and her children arrived in Buffalo in 2004, where Bile met Mohamud, who also is from Somalia.
"Why did he lose control?" Mohamud's attorney Kevin Spitler asked during closing arguments. "He just wanted his son to succeed. He just wanted his son to be ready for that state-mandated test. He just wanted his son to do his schoolwork. He just wanted him to be educated."
"Good reason to fall into that rage? No," Spitler said. But without an intent to kill, the lawyer told jurors, they should acquit Mohamud.
"It's a very sad and tragic case," Spitler said after the verdict. He said he would appeal.
After killing Abdi, Mohamud waited for Bile to return home and told her Abdi had run away. He went to The Buffalo News, where he worked as a security guard, and was arrested there after police responding to Bile's missing child report found Abdi's body in the blood-spattered basement.
Mohamud faces up to 25 years to life in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 15.
Uh no. He TORTURED THIS POOR BOY TO DEATH. The boy's injuries were so severe that he had a least 4 injuries that by themselves could have been fatal.
Typical media minimization of male violence. All while Mom was at work on a double shift to support this killer's lazy lying @$$.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NY-stepfather-s-lawyer-He-didn-t-mean-to-kill-son-3961215.php
NY stepfather guilty in son's beating death
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press
Updated 10:55 p.m., Thursday, October 18, 2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A jury Thursday convicted a New York father of second-degree murder for shattering his 10-year-old stepson's skull with a rolling pin, rejecting defense claims that he was just trying to get the child to do homework and didn't mean to kill him.
A state Supreme Court jury in Buffalo deliberated about three hours before finding Ali-Mohamed Mohamud guilty.
"Justice has been done," prosecutor Thomas Finnerty said. In closing arguments earlier, he'd mocked the idea that there was no intent to cause death, a key element for a second-degree murder conviction.
"How about intent to slaughter?" Finnerty asked.
With the mother of victim Abdifatah Mohamud and other relatives crying quietly in the courtroom, the prosecutor had walked jurors through the prolonged and grisly killing that occurred in the family's basement April 17 while the boy's mother worked the second shift cleaning offices in downtown Buffalo.
After the boy known as Abdi had tried to run away, Mohamud stabbed him with a kitchen knife, tried to drown him in the bathroom and brought him into the basement where he gagged him with a sock and duct tape, bound his hands with an electrical cord and struck him nearly 70 times with a hardwood rolling pin, stopping only when the child was obviously dead on the floor.
Finnerty recounted a medical examiner's testimony that Abdi suffered four lethal injuries among damage covering his entire body, including a blow to the head that had "internally decapitated" him, separating the skull from the spinal column.
The child's mother, Shukri Bile, gave birth to Abdi while living at a refugee camp in Uganda, having fled violence in Somalia that killed her older children's father. Bile and her children arrived in Buffalo in 2004, where Bile met Mohamud, who also is from Somalia.
"Why did he lose control?" Mohamud's attorney Kevin Spitler asked during closing arguments. "He just wanted his son to succeed. He just wanted his son to be ready for that state-mandated test. He just wanted his son to do his schoolwork. He just wanted him to be educated."
"Good reason to fall into that rage? No," Spitler said. But without an intent to kill, the lawyer told jurors, they should acquit Mohamud.
"It's a very sad and tragic case," Spitler said after the verdict. He said he would appeal.
After killing Abdi, Mohamud waited for Bile to return home and told her Abdi had run away. He went to The Buffalo News, where he worked as a security guard, and was arrested there after police responding to Bile's missing child report found Abdi's body in the blood-spattered basement.
Mohamud faces up to 25 years to life in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 15.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Dad sentenced to life without parole for killing 4 kids, raping wife (Louisville, Kentucky)
The mother tried to limit dad SAID BIYAD's access to the children because he was "angry and controlling." Given that Dad has been convicted of murdering all four kids, can we now affirm that her concerns were legitimate?
http://www.mydesert.com/article/B2/20110609/NEWS01/306090030/Said-Biyad-sentenced-life-without-parole-killing-his-four-children?odyssey=nav%7Chead
Said Biyad sentenced to life without parole for killing his four children, raping wife
3:57 PM, Jun. 9, 2011
Written by Jason Riley
Saying it was the “worst criminal case” he had seen during his 18 years on the bench, a Jefferson Circuit Court judge on Thursday sentenced a Somali refugee to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering his four children and raping his wife in their Louisville apartment in 2006.
Said Biyad, 47, said nothing during his sentencing, sitting expressionless and still as he listened to his interpreter.
It was a vast departure from his four-day bench trial in April, where Biyad disrupted the proceedings several times with outbursts, then testified that three mysterious men in a blue van killed his children.
In fact, Biyad beat and raped his wife, Fatuma Amir, on Oct. 6, 2006, and then went to the rooms of his children — Goshany, Khadija, Fatuma and Sidi Ali, ages 2 through 8 — and slashed their throats repeatedly, even as two of the youngsters fought for their lives, prosecutors say.
“This was one of the most horrific crime scenes I've seen documented,” Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Christie Foster told reporters after the sentencing, adding that everyone in the courtroom was “torn apart” as an audio of Amir's screams in her call to 911 were played during the trial. “This was one like we haven't seen in this community in a long time. Hopefully we will never see it again.”
Biyad's wife chose not to attend the sentencing, but Foster said it was “her wish that he never see the light of day, and frankly I agree wholeheartedly.”
Judge James Shake could have sentenced Biyad to as few as 20 years in prison or handed down a death sentence.
But he followed the recommendation of both the prosecution and defense, who agreed to take the death penalty off the table and allow Shake, not a jury, to decide the outcome. Prosecutors said that was appropriate given all the factors in the case, including the possibility that a jury could have found Biyad insane.
After the four-day trial, Shake found Biyad guilty on four counts of murder, as well as attempted murder, assault, rape , and tampering with physical evidence.
Foster told Shake that during the trial, Biyad saw bloody photographs and video of his children, their throats cut, heard testimony from his wife about being raped and beaten with a mallet and “he did not shed a tear. He has shown absolutely no remorse.”
“… Mr. Biyad does not belong on the streets,” Foster told Shake. “He is a dangerous man, a dangerous individual.”
Defense attorneys had argued that Biyad was mentally ill and could not control his actions. On Thursday, they raised the possibility Biyad was borderline mentally retarded, with an IQ in the 70s.
Attorney Mike Lemke asked Shake to avoid sentencing Biyad to death, saying the agreement reached by the prosecution and defense of life without parole was “reasonable, logical” and fair.
Lemke said it is expected that the guilty verdict will be appealed, although he didn't say on what grounds.
During the trial, prosecutors said Biyad was a “possessive, angry man” who was upset his wife had more power than he did — she had a job and was taking care of the children, limiting his access to them, something that would not have happened in his native Somalia.
And, the prosecution claimed, he recently had found out she was pregnant and believed it was another man's child.
Foster told Shake that Biyad walked into Louisville Metro Police headquarters the day of the murders and told a detective, in detail, about killing his family, then had the “audacity to get on the stand and change his story and claim he did not do it.”
Biyad said during the trial the lengthy videotaped confession that was played in court was “made up,” with someone else answering questions from Detective Chris Middleton in English.
Instead, Biyad testified that three men knocked on his door and asked where his wife was.
He said they gave him a drink that had something in it and “my head started exploding,” telling him he was being kidnapped. Biyad said the men demanded $10 million, and then he went into a room where his wife was sleeping to tell her what was happening.
Biyad said his wife “didn't care” and told him to deal with it, leading to a fight between the two. As they were fighting, Biyad said, the men went into his children's rooms and killed them.
Biyad testified he tried to call 911, but the men stopped him, although he said they later offered him a ride to the police station, which he declined.
He also said they gave him the murder weapon, a knife, which he disposed of in a trash bin, and took a bus to the police station.
In the interview with Middleton that was played in court, Biyad said Amir tried to get him to leave the family's apartment in the 1400 block of Bicknell Avenue off Taylor Boulevard the day of the killings, pushing him out the front door and cursing him, leading to a confrontation between the two.
Biyad told the detective that after he hit Amir with a mallet, knocking her unconscious, she woke and started shouting, so he grabbed a knife and chased her, but she locked herself in a room.
“I said ‘OK, I know you are going to put me (in) jail, I already hit you,'” he said. “I have to finish this proper.”
Biyad said he intended to kill himself, but didn't know how. Instead, he went into his children's rooms.
Two of the children were awake. Biyad said on the tape that he told them to close their eyes and sleep before cutting their throats.
“This is a bad thing I did, very bad,” Biyad told Middleton.
Jefferson County Coroner Barbara Weakley-Jones testified that two of the children had defense wounds, mostly on their hands and arms. She said the oldest child, Sidi, was hit on the head with a mallet and had his throat slashed.
Amir testified at trial that Biyad raped her and beat her with a blunt object, causing her to lose consciousness. When she came to, she said she began calling for her children, but received no response.
She also testified that Biyad is the father of her child born after the slayings.
Dr. Greg Perri, a psychologist who met with Biyad at the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center in La Grange, testified that while Biyad has a paranoid personality disorder, he had no symptoms of psychotic behavior the day of the murders and was able to appreciate that he had committed a crime.
The defense presented testimony from a psychiatrist, Dr. Walter Butler, who said Biyad was a paranoid schizophrenic who was mentally ill at the time of the killings. In interviews with Biyad in 2008, Butler testified, Biyad said he believed he was a millionaire and people were trying to kill him.
Biyad testified he had never seen Butler before and “he made up a lot of stuff.”
http://www.mydesert.com/article/B2/20110609/NEWS01/306090030/Said-Biyad-sentenced-life-without-parole-killing-his-four-children?odyssey=nav%7Chead
Said Biyad sentenced to life without parole for killing his four children, raping wife
3:57 PM, Jun. 9, 2011
Written by Jason Riley
Saying it was the “worst criminal case” he had seen during his 18 years on the bench, a Jefferson Circuit Court judge on Thursday sentenced a Somali refugee to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering his four children and raping his wife in their Louisville apartment in 2006.
Said Biyad, 47, said nothing during his sentencing, sitting expressionless and still as he listened to his interpreter.
It was a vast departure from his four-day bench trial in April, where Biyad disrupted the proceedings several times with outbursts, then testified that three mysterious men in a blue van killed his children.
In fact, Biyad beat and raped his wife, Fatuma Amir, on Oct. 6, 2006, and then went to the rooms of his children — Goshany, Khadija, Fatuma and Sidi Ali, ages 2 through 8 — and slashed their throats repeatedly, even as two of the youngsters fought for their lives, prosecutors say.
“This was one of the most horrific crime scenes I've seen documented,” Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Christie Foster told reporters after the sentencing, adding that everyone in the courtroom was “torn apart” as an audio of Amir's screams in her call to 911 were played during the trial. “This was one like we haven't seen in this community in a long time. Hopefully we will never see it again.”
Biyad's wife chose not to attend the sentencing, but Foster said it was “her wish that he never see the light of day, and frankly I agree wholeheartedly.”
Judge James Shake could have sentenced Biyad to as few as 20 years in prison or handed down a death sentence.
But he followed the recommendation of both the prosecution and defense, who agreed to take the death penalty off the table and allow Shake, not a jury, to decide the outcome. Prosecutors said that was appropriate given all the factors in the case, including the possibility that a jury could have found Biyad insane.
After the four-day trial, Shake found Biyad guilty on four counts of murder, as well as attempted murder, assault, rape , and tampering with physical evidence.
Foster told Shake that during the trial, Biyad saw bloody photographs and video of his children, their throats cut, heard testimony from his wife about being raped and beaten with a mallet and “he did not shed a tear. He has shown absolutely no remorse.”
“… Mr. Biyad does not belong on the streets,” Foster told Shake. “He is a dangerous man, a dangerous individual.”
Defense attorneys had argued that Biyad was mentally ill and could not control his actions. On Thursday, they raised the possibility Biyad was borderline mentally retarded, with an IQ in the 70s.
Attorney Mike Lemke asked Shake to avoid sentencing Biyad to death, saying the agreement reached by the prosecution and defense of life without parole was “reasonable, logical” and fair.
Lemke said it is expected that the guilty verdict will be appealed, although he didn't say on what grounds.
During the trial, prosecutors said Biyad was a “possessive, angry man” who was upset his wife had more power than he did — she had a job and was taking care of the children, limiting his access to them, something that would not have happened in his native Somalia.
And, the prosecution claimed, he recently had found out she was pregnant and believed it was another man's child.
Foster told Shake that Biyad walked into Louisville Metro Police headquarters the day of the murders and told a detective, in detail, about killing his family, then had the “audacity to get on the stand and change his story and claim he did not do it.”
Biyad said during the trial the lengthy videotaped confession that was played in court was “made up,” with someone else answering questions from Detective Chris Middleton in English.
Instead, Biyad testified that three men knocked on his door and asked where his wife was.
He said they gave him a drink that had something in it and “my head started exploding,” telling him he was being kidnapped. Biyad said the men demanded $10 million, and then he went into a room where his wife was sleeping to tell her what was happening.
Biyad said his wife “didn't care” and told him to deal with it, leading to a fight between the two. As they were fighting, Biyad said, the men went into his children's rooms and killed them.
Biyad testified he tried to call 911, but the men stopped him, although he said they later offered him a ride to the police station, which he declined.
He also said they gave him the murder weapon, a knife, which he disposed of in a trash bin, and took a bus to the police station.
In the interview with Middleton that was played in court, Biyad said Amir tried to get him to leave the family's apartment in the 1400 block of Bicknell Avenue off Taylor Boulevard the day of the killings, pushing him out the front door and cursing him, leading to a confrontation between the two.
Biyad told the detective that after he hit Amir with a mallet, knocking her unconscious, she woke and started shouting, so he grabbed a knife and chased her, but she locked herself in a room.
“I said ‘OK, I know you are going to put me (in) jail, I already hit you,'” he said. “I have to finish this proper.”
Biyad said he intended to kill himself, but didn't know how. Instead, he went into his children's rooms.
Two of the children were awake. Biyad said on the tape that he told them to close their eyes and sleep before cutting their throats.
“This is a bad thing I did, very bad,” Biyad told Middleton.
Jefferson County Coroner Barbara Weakley-Jones testified that two of the children had defense wounds, mostly on their hands and arms. She said the oldest child, Sidi, was hit on the head with a mallet and had his throat slashed.
Amir testified at trial that Biyad raped her and beat her with a blunt object, causing her to lose consciousness. When she came to, she said she began calling for her children, but received no response.
She also testified that Biyad is the father of her child born after the slayings.
Dr. Greg Perri, a psychologist who met with Biyad at the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center in La Grange, testified that while Biyad has a paranoid personality disorder, he had no symptoms of psychotic behavior the day of the murders and was able to appreciate that he had committed a crime.
The defense presented testimony from a psychiatrist, Dr. Walter Butler, who said Biyad was a paranoid schizophrenic who was mentally ill at the time of the killings. In interviews with Biyad in 2008, Butler testified, Biyad said he believed he was a millionaire and people were trying to kill him.
Biyad testified he had never seen Butler before and “he made up a lot of stuff.”
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Dad convicted in 2006 slaying of 4 children; rape and attempted murder of their mother (Jefferson County, Kentucky)
The wheels of justice move slowly, but dad SAID BIYAD has finally been convicted of murder in the bloody slayings of his 4 children. He was also convicted of rape and the attempted murder of their mother.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/04/22/1572930/father-convicted-of-killing-4.html
Father convicted of killing 4 children in KentuckyBy The Associated Press
A Somali immigrant has been convicted on all counts of killing his four children and raping and trying to kill his wife.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge James Shake took about 20 minutes Friday to reach the verdict against Said Biyad (sy-EED' bee-YAHD). Sentencing is set for June 9. He could get life without parole.
Biyad was accused of killing his four children - ages 2 through 8 - by slitting their throats in 2006 following an argument with his wife.
Biyad had claimed that his children were killed by three men demanding money. He also argued that an impostor claiming to be him confessed to the police.
His attorney argued that Biyad suffered mental illness and wasn't criminally responsible for his actions.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/04/22/1572930/father-convicted-of-killing-4.html
Father convicted of killing 4 children in KentuckyBy The Associated Press
A Somali immigrant has been convicted on all counts of killing his four children and raping and trying to kill his wife.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge James Shake took about 20 minutes Friday to reach the verdict against Said Biyad (sy-EED' bee-YAHD). Sentencing is set for June 9. He could get life without parole.
Biyad was accused of killing his four children - ages 2 through 8 - by slitting their throats in 2006 following an argument with his wife.
Biyad had claimed that his children were killed by three men demanding money. He also argued that an impostor claiming to be him confessed to the police.
His attorney argued that Biyad suffered mental illness and wasn't criminally responsible for his actions.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Dad arrested for sexual abuse of 10-year-old daughter (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Dad KALUNGA DAMAS KANYELA has been arrested for sexually abusing his 10-year-old daughter. I'm not buying Daddy's cultural relativism argument. If it's okay for a father to "touch" his daughter back in Africa, then why did he immediately try to cover up what he did, by shoving the little girl away when the mother found them? He knew what he was doing was wrong, at least in the United States. You get points for creativity, though.
http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/24032122/detail.html
Police: Father Booked For Sexual Abuse
Mother Of Three Girls Told Police Abuse Common In Africa
POSTED: 10:22 pm PDT June 24, 2010
UPDATED: 11:21 pm PDT June 24, 2010
LAS VEGAS -- A Somalian immigrant told police he didn’t think it was wrong to touch his daughters because it is allowed in Africa, a Las Vegas Metro Police report said.
Police arrested Kalunga Damas Kanyela, 38, after his wife, Kyanda Manda, 35, said she walked into the family’s living room June 11 to find her husband sexually abusing their 10-year-old daughter.
She said her husband saw her and pushed their daughter off of him, the report said.
When Manda asked her daughter what happened, the girl said her father had touched her vagina and he had forced her to have sex with him on other occasions, the report said.
When Manda confronted her husband, he begged her not to tell anyone and promised he would never do it again, the woman told police.
She then called a friend, and asked them to call police.
Manda told police she suspected something inappropriate was happening because Kanyela had molested their three daughters when they lived in Africa, the report said. She also told police this form of abuse is common in Africa and that it has happened at least five times before.
A forensic interview with the girl backed up the mother’s story and revealed other forced sex acts between the father and daughter, the report said.
Interviews with the girl’s older sister, 16, and younger sister, 6, revealed that their father had also sexually abused them, but in Africa, the report said.
In the report, Kanyela denied touching his daughters inappropriately, but said he touched the 10-year-old girl on her stomach and chest. He said he did not know it was wrong to do in America because it is OK in Africa, the report said.
He said he would write a letter of apology to his daughters, but then later said he could not do it, the report said. Kanyela said he would write a letter to the court in reference to what he did, the report said.
Because no one in the family spoke English, a Swahili translator was called in to assist police, the report said.
The family had moved to the United States in 2009, the report said.
Kanyela was charged with one gross misdemeanor count of open or gross lewdness, three felony counts of sexual assault with a minor under 14 years of age and three felony counts of lewdness with a child under the age of 14.
Kanyela is in Clark County Detention Center awaiting his preliminary hearing July 21.
http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/24032122/detail.html
Police: Father Booked For Sexual Abuse
Mother Of Three Girls Told Police Abuse Common In Africa
POSTED: 10:22 pm PDT June 24, 2010
UPDATED: 11:21 pm PDT June 24, 2010
LAS VEGAS -- A Somalian immigrant told police he didn’t think it was wrong to touch his daughters because it is allowed in Africa, a Las Vegas Metro Police report said.
Police arrested Kalunga Damas Kanyela, 38, after his wife, Kyanda Manda, 35, said she walked into the family’s living room June 11 to find her husband sexually abusing their 10-year-old daughter.
She said her husband saw her and pushed their daughter off of him, the report said.
When Manda asked her daughter what happened, the girl said her father had touched her vagina and he had forced her to have sex with him on other occasions, the report said.
When Manda confronted her husband, he begged her not to tell anyone and promised he would never do it again, the woman told police.
She then called a friend, and asked them to call police.
Manda told police she suspected something inappropriate was happening because Kanyela had molested their three daughters when they lived in Africa, the report said. She also told police this form of abuse is common in Africa and that it has happened at least five times before.
A forensic interview with the girl backed up the mother’s story and revealed other forced sex acts between the father and daughter, the report said.
Interviews with the girl’s older sister, 16, and younger sister, 6, revealed that their father had also sexually abused them, but in Africa, the report said.
In the report, Kanyela denied touching his daughters inappropriately, but said he touched the 10-year-old girl on her stomach and chest. He said he did not know it was wrong to do in America because it is OK in Africa, the report said.
He said he would write a letter of apology to his daughters, but then later said he could not do it, the report said. Kanyela said he would write a letter to the court in reference to what he did, the report said.
Because no one in the family spoke English, a Swahili translator was called in to assist police, the report said.
The family had moved to the United States in 2009, the report said.
Kanyela was charged with one gross misdemeanor count of open or gross lewdness, three felony counts of sexual assault with a minor under 14 years of age and three felony counts of lewdness with a child under the age of 14.
Kanyela is in Clark County Detention Center awaiting his preliminary hearing July 21.
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