A Libyan father tortures his daughter in hot water because he is troubled by her illness

Public opinion in Libya was shaken, Monday, due to a shocking crime in which a young girl, no more than 3 years old, was killed by her father and his wife in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, after they flogged her and tortured her with hot water.

In the details revealed by the investigation unit of the Criminal Investigation Department in Ajdabiya, on Monday, the child "Rabiha Khaled Abdel Hamid" was suffering from diarrheal disease, which disturbed the comfort of the father who flogged her with a rope, took her to the bathroom and put her in the bathtub, then opened The hot water was on them for up to about an hour, and this matter caused severe injuries and burns throughout the child's body.

Then he put him in a closed room until nine at night, and he agreed with his wife to contact one of her relatives to take her to the hospital after leaving the house, and claim that the burns on his daughter's body were caused by hot water spilling on her when she entered the kitchen.

The Criminal Investigation Department in Ajdabiya also confirmed that “by investigating the girl’s father and his wife and besieging them with evidence, they had to confess that they had committed the crime.

It is noteworthy that this crime sparked the anger of Libyans on social media, calling for the necessity to execute the killer of his daughter and to impose harsh punishments on his wife, calling on the authorities to intervene to combat crime and its roots and limit its spread within society, especially in the month of Ramadan.

It is noteworthy that this incident came a week after a horrific crime in the Kabau region of the Western Mountain City, in which an entire family (a father, his pregnant wife and their two sons) was killed, by firing squad at the hands of the father's brothers due to a dispute over inheritance.