Indian Woman Drowns Daughters After Alleged Taunts By Husband & Family

[Judee]

Indian woman drowns daughters after alleged taunts
Posted on : 2008-03-07

New Delhi - An Indian woman claimed she had drowned her two daughters, aged 4 and 9 months, because she was harassed by her husband and his family for bearing only girls, news reports said Friday. The bodies of the two girls were found floating in a pond on Tuesday at a religious institution on the outskirts of West Bengal capital Kolkata, The Telegraph newspaper reported.

Seema Sai, 24, of Cha village located 185 kilometres north-west of Kolkata, was arrested on Thursday night for the crime.

She confessed to the crime and told the police that she was driven to take the extreme step because of regular "taunts" by her husband's family for giving birth to daughters and not a son.

The male child is traditionally preferred in Indian society and girls are seen as a burden as large dowries have to be paid for their weddings. A son is seen as essential also because the family lineage is propagated through male descendants.

Sai told the police she had travelled to Kolkata suburb Howrah with her daughters for her sister's wedding. She confessed during interrogation that she had initially intended to drown her daughters in the Hooghly river which flows adjacent to the religious seminary and then kill herself, the police said.

When she entered the seminary gardens, she saw the pond and threw her daughters in but did not have the courage to jump in herself, the police quoted her as saying.

"As the evening prayers were on at the math (seminary), no one saw her entering the garden," police official Niraj Kumar Singh said. She waited for a long while and left for home early next morning, he said.

After her arrest, Sai showed the police how and where she had drowned her daughters. "But we are verifying whether she gave the correct picture," a police official was quoted as saying.

Her father-in-law Ananda Sai and husband Kanchan have denied harassing Seema. "We were very fond of the two girls. I used to play with them all the time. Its a blatant lie that we taunted and tortured her," the father-in-law said.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/s...d-taunts.html#

[Alpha]

This is a very sad story......much more than that.

I wonder what the stats are, relative tohow many crimes against female children occur globally, due to fundamentalist male dominated societies?

I also have to ask, whether these murders will be applauded, treated leniently or whether this woman will be prosecuted for two counts of first degree murder?!?!?

[Divinorumus]

New Delhi - An Indian woman claimed she had drowned her two daughters, aged 4 and 9 months,

What? Am I the only one that caught this . . that? How old?

[VOguy]

4 year old and 9 month old?

[Divinorumus]

4 year old and 9 month old?

That's not what it says.

[Judee]

That's not what it says.

Div, obviously if these two daughters were her own blood, and one is nine months old; then the other has to be 4 years old -- not 4 months old!

Alpha, I think ultimately the joke will be on the men of the countries who want only male children. In China, there are already not enough females to go around for all the men. There are reports of men having to actually physically kidnap a woman and force her into marriage. As there are less and less women, I guess that would be good for birth control. Also, it gives me great, (albiet a perverted sense of the 'snicker-snickers'), to know there will be millions of frustrated men walking around with no chance of getting a woman.