The parents of a girl cut off the nose and ears of a cleric to avenge the alleged sexual abuse of their daughter in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday.
The girl’s parents invited Sayed Ahmad 30, for dinner this week in Jar-e-Khoshk village in Baghlan-e-Markazi district, said Javid Basharat, police spokesman for Baghlan province.
“They tied his arms and legs and cut his nose and ears off with a knife,’’ Basharat said.
Police had arrested the couple and the cleric, who is also the 12-year-old girl’s cousin.
“The couple immediately confessed they cut his nose and ears off in retaliation for the abuse,’’ Basharat told dpa.
The cleric admitted that he had abused the girl some three months ago using anaesthesia, the spokesman said.
“She did not know what her cousin was doing with her,’’ said Khadijah Yaqeen, chief of women’s affairs department for Baghlan province.
“After the abuse, she told her parents and they decided to take the revenge.”
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