Man gets 5 years for beating his stepson to death - Jordan/Domestic Violence
Rana Husseini; 19/3/08
The Criminal Court has sentenced a 30-year-old man to five-years in prison after convicting him of beating his stepson to death on November 17, 2005. The tribunal declared A. M. guilty of hitting the three-year-old with his hands following an argument with his wife at their home in Zarqa. The court said the defendant often quarrelled with his wife about the presence of the victim and his sister in their house and in their lives. On the day of the incident, the defendant had a heated argument with his wife, which ended with him beating the boy and throwing him on the floor, according to the court. “The boy fainted so they poured water on his face, but he did not wake up so they rushed him to a nearby hospital where he died few days later of wounds sustained from the assault,” the court said.