Man Butchers 15-Month-Old Nephew in Jeddah Supermarket

[Doctor Cynic]

Source: Arab News

JEDDAH, 3 March 2008 — Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah were left reeling yesterday, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store’s fruit and vegetable section.

In a brutal murder that has shocked the city, the 25-year-old man beheaded the boy, who was out shopping with his mother — in full glare of shoppers and staff at Al-Marhaba supermarket on Sari Street around 9.30 a.m. The man, who is the boy’s maternal uncle, apparently killed the boy following a dispute with his sister and brother-in-law.

Eyewitnesses said that the man picked up a knife from inside the store and severed the boy’s head. The mother and a shopper standing close by fainted, while several other stood in shock and disbelief over what had happened.

A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Arab News, “The murderer was in a dispute with the boy’s mother and her husband. He chopped off the boy’s head in front of the mother to get back at her.” He added that the mother has been left traumatized and is in hospital. The boy’s father was at work at the time of the incident.

Read more: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=107428&d=3&m=3&y=2008

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The irony here is that the man will be beheaded, though he might get away by claiming his 15-month-old nephew is somehow sexualizing his wife.

[housewolf]

1. ohhh man......

that's just unimaginable. I can't even find the words to express how horrible...

[liberal N proud]

2. Unbelievable

My head is spinning trying to comprehend such actions.

[TrogL]

4. Don't bother

If it's anything to do with fundamentalist religion, there's no point in trying to understand it. It's neither rational nor causal.

[trthnd4jstc]

14. This wasn't a case of fundamentalism, it was a case of psychosis

I do believe that anyone who follows an extreme point of view, who no longer tries to understand anyone elses views outside of her/his own, becomes a radical. We must always work to understand each other. Whenever one gets enraged, one needs to take a time out, in any religious faith.

[closeupready]

3. Can't even think of words.

:cry:

[blackspade]

5. Asshole

This guy should be run over by a road roller feet first.
If they do behead him, use a dull ax.

[JNelson6563]

6. Guillotine but he lays face up

Lunatic.

[Seabiscuit]

11. Strip him naked, cover him with honey, and plop him down on a carpenter ant hill.

[emmadoggy]

7. Monstrous.

Evil. Inhuman.

No other words. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[asthmaticeog]

8. On principle, I abhor the death penalty.

This strains at the very limits of that principle. Just unfuckingbelieveable, the utterly repellent things people are capable of.

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Likewise

x(

[flashl]

10. No meaningful words....

:cry:

[Jersey Ginny]

12. I'm sorry that I read this. I'm sick. I worry about copycats

Horrendous.

[mainegreen]

13. I don't want them to kill him. I want them to keep him in a small box in the desert.

With just enough food and water to survive and suffer for a long time.

Fucking kid killers.