The Egyptian Public Prosecution announced, on Wednesday, an investigation into the incident of a father assaulting his two children in the northern city of Port Said, once morest the background of the circulation of publications and photos that monitor the incident on social media.
The Monitoring and Analysis Unit of the Egyptian Attorney General’s Office monitored Trending PostsIn conjunction with the Public Prosecution receiving a report, on the fifth of September, from the divorcee of the accused of the latter’s assault on the girl, who is fifteen years old, and causing her injuries, the Public Prosecution took over the investigations, according toPublic Prosecution’s statement“Egyptian.
According to the statement, the Public Prosecution moved to the hospital to ask the victim’s child, and decided to accuse her father of causing her injury because she had permanently fled his home. The Public Prosecution also asked the victim’s mother, who expressed her desire to “waive the complaint.”
By interrogating the accused, he “confessed to beating his daughter”, inflicting injuries on her, claiming that she “disciplined her for her misbehavior and her permanent escape from the house,” according to the statement.
The Public Prosecution assigned the police to conduct investigations into the incident, and also assigned the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood to examine the report and prepare a report on the case, with recommendations to be taken regarding the child.
In its statement, the Public Prosecution said that “in conjunction with these procedures, the Monitoring and Analysis Unit in the Statement Department of the Public Prosecutor’s Office monitored a publication of a specialist in the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood, which is responsible for examining the aforementioned report, claiming that the accused father beat his son, causing injuries similar to his assault on his daughter.”
The rapporteur of the Child Protection Committee in the Sharq district of Port Said, Nahid Abdel Razek, had said in a post on her account on the website,FacebookShe “was threatened by the girl’s father,” adding that the accused had assaulted his 17-year-old son.
The Public Prosecution confirmed that it monitored the publication, and by questioning it in the investigations, “she denied accusing the aforementioned accused of any accusation, and denied receiving any direct threats from him,” according to the statement by the Public Prosecution.
According to the statement, she “justified what she claimed on social media by fearing the accused and forcing him to prevent him from being exposed to her, in the manner that emerged from her sister’s statements.”
The Public Prosecution confirmed that it is taking measures to investigate the incident of the aforementioned assault on his son, and they are being completed and the two incidents are being dealt with, according to the statement.
torture and burning
The Egyptian journalist, Mohamed El-Gheity, revealed, on a program broadcast on Al-Shams channel, the details of the father’s torture of his daughter with the help of his “second wife”, stressing that the accused “did not find anything in her body except that he burned her.”
Al-Ghaiti said that the father of the child had “tortured, burned and tied her to the chain”, while the girl talked regarding the details of the assault, saying that her father “aggressed on her with a thick stick (Shoma) and that she underwent surgery on the foot because she was at risk of amputation.”