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A jury felt a father went too far in trying to find out where his daughter was. Fifty-three-year-old Javed Khalid and three other Pakistani natives were found guilty yesterday in a Brooklyn courtroom of charges that Khalid led the torture the uncle of his daughter's new husband.
Kahlid's daughter Maryam ran off at the age of 16 and got married to her 19-year-old classmate Usaman Rana in 2006. Unable to ascertain her whereabouts and enraged that his young daughter had eloped (she was promised to a "rich suitor in Pakistan") , Khalid and three friends broke into the Coney Island home of Rana's uncle and beat him with a hammer, nunchuks, antique sword, brass knuckles and more, demanding to know the location of the newlyweds.
While the prosecution's case essentially rested simply on the testimony of Rana Hussain, the uncle who was attacked. Jurors saw photo evidence of injuries that Hussain suffered, but they seemed less severe than what would be expected by the victim's account of his ordeal. The New York Post spoke to several jurors about their deliberations and one particularly damning piece of evidence was provided by the runaway bride herself. "A set of letters sent by Maryam to the police, expressing outrage at the attack, helped the jurors believe Hussain." Her whereabouts remain unknown.
The four convicted men now face between five and 25 years in prison. Ironically, a group of approximately 100 supporters of the defendants wound up hurting the men rather than helping them. They appeared on the day that Rana Hussain took the stand to describe his assault and their presence was viewed by jurors as an attempt to intimidate him. At any rate, Khalid told the Daily News last week, "I just want my daughter back! If they want to marry, I will marry them. I just want her to be old enough. I forgive her. I love her."
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What a bunch of jackals. lock 'em up. and who would come to there defense? more of these radical 8th century nutjobs? This is New York, not Pakistan!
Dave Hogarty apparently went to the Jen Chung school of editing.
Though to Jen's credit, she's really cleaned up her act lately.
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Hard to believe that she would run away from such a loving and caring family.
religion is so stupid!
also, can gothamist ban the grammar nazi's?
I have said in a previous blog. People come from other countries and do not have the consistant ethics that exist in America. Talk about misplaced justice. Wow!
We are too different to ever be able to live together. Honor killings, stonings, beheadings... because you marry/date someone outside your relgion, you're gay, or are different than the massses. All sick bastards. I espacially do not like them because they have no respect for women whatsoever.
Yeah it's their culture... blah blah blah... it's my culture to not a accept this bullshit...
we're supposed to accept them but they don't have to accept us? fuck! that!
fuk, we need more of these honor killings.
they already got her set up with a rich guy, is that so bad? you'll be sorry, being rich is better than being poor.
isn't this what they do down South??????? pot meet kettle.
De_Dust. Terrorist Wins.
Yeah... down South. THAT'S what they do. Those Southies.
did anyone see her pic in the paper. talk about a face for radio. they should have been estatic that somebody took her away.
What about this hypothetical:
White suburban dad and family member are accused of torturing the uncle of a 19-man who has seemingly abducted his 16-year-old daughter.
There's no proof of this torture. There are letters purportedly from the minor-girl abhoring the uncle's torture.
Nothing else.
Who here would convict?
Who here would want to know where the 16-year-old is?
"People come from other countries and do not have the consistant ethics that exist in America."
That had to be a sarcastic comment or someone is seriously deluded.
Why are these people let into the country in the first place?
13, you are point. Respect.
And whats up with the letters proving the torture? She wasn't there to see it either. Those letters prove nothing.
19 year old classmate? Is he stupid?
Yeah, who let the white guys who slaughtered a family and raped in Conn. a few weeks back into the country?
STFU.
whose to say that the girl really wrote the letters maybe the stupid lying asshold uncle wrote the letters and send it to the cops himself where is the girl no one knows and why was her boyfriend charged with statutory rape anr the cops sleeping on this on or what?
sorry for the error why was'nt the boyfriend charged with statutory rape are the cops sleeping on this one because the family is pakistani.