London: A Muslim
woman in London is
facing jail on charges of
beating a 10-yr-old girl because she did not read enough verses
of the Quran. During her trial in a Snaresbrook Crown
Court, it emerged that Asia Parveen, 31,
who was five months pregnant at the
time of the incident, beat a 10-year-old
girl with a steel ladle and also forced
the girl to stand with her arms outstretched for four hours, and now
faces a possible jail sentence. The girl, whose identity has been keep
under wraps for legal reasons, escaped
from the house in Stoke Newington,
north London at 10pm. Almost four
hours later, the police found her alone
at a bus stop in Waltham Forest, east London, in the early hours of the
morning. She was then taken to the hospital
where the doctors found 56 injuries on
her body. Parveen, who is a mother-of-three,
accepted causing some of the injuries
with the ten inch cooking spoon but
said others must have been caused
when the girl ''fell over.'' Prosecutor of the case Tom Nicholson
told the court that an argument started
between Parveen and the girl on
August 15 last year during Ramadan. The girl was praying from the Koran
and Parveen accused her of lying about
how many of the verses she had read.
She was 10 at the time. Parveen took a
metal spoon about 10 inches in size and
the Crown's case is that she hit the child with it repeatedly over a half an hour
period, causing extensive bruising over
both arms, her legs and head, The
Daily Mail quoted Nicholson, as saying. He outlined that Parveen had
reportedly claimed to kill the girl and
ran to get a knife from the kitchen. So, the girl had no alternative but to
home leave at around 10pm, he
added. Admitting to the single count of child
cruelty, she however insisted that she
only used the spoon once or twice on
the girl's arms and bottom and also
denied threatening to kill the 10-year-
old or picking up a knife. The case has been adjourned till the
next hearing on June 15.
Muslim woman thrashes girl for not reading Quran
woman in London is
facing jail on charges of
beating a 10-yr-old girl because she did not read enough verses
of the Quran. During her trial in a Snaresbrook Crown
Court, it emerged that Asia Parveen, 31,
who was five months pregnant at the
time of the incident, beat a 10-year-old
girl with a steel ladle and also forced
the girl to stand with her arms outstretched for four hours, and now
faces a possible jail sentence. The girl, whose identity has been keep
under wraps for legal reasons, escaped
from the house in Stoke Newington,
north London at 10pm. Almost four
hours later, the police found her alone
at a bus stop in Waltham Forest, east London, in the early hours of the
morning. She was then taken to the hospital
where the doctors found 56 injuries on
her body. Parveen, who is a mother-of-three,
accepted causing some of the injuries
with the ten inch cooking spoon but
said others must have been caused
when the girl ''fell over.'' Prosecutor of the case Tom Nicholson
told the court that an argument started
between Parveen and the girl on
August 15 last year during Ramadan. The girl was praying from the Koran
and Parveen accused her of lying about
how many of the verses she had read.
She was 10 at the time. Parveen took a
metal spoon about 10 inches in size and
the Crown's case is that she hit the child with it repeatedly over a half an hour
period, causing extensive bruising over
both arms, her legs and head, The
Daily Mail quoted Nicholson, as saying. He outlined that Parveen had
reportedly claimed to kill the girl and
ran to get a knife from the kitchen. So, the girl had no alternative but to
home leave at around 10pm, he
added. Admitting to the single count of child
cruelty, she however insisted that she
only used the spoon once or twice on
the girl's arms and bottom and also
denied threatening to kill the 10-year-
old or picking up a knife. The case has been adjourned till the
next hearing on June 15.
Muslim woman thrashes girl for not reading Quran
