Parents Kill Teenager With Acid for “eyeing a boy” in Pakistan

Killed for ‘Eyeing a Boy’? Parents Kill Teenager With Acid in Honor Killing
ICC Note:
A father and mother threw acid on and killed their 15-year- old daughter for looking at a boy, the Christian Post reports. The father scolded the girl after she looked at a boy that drove by them on a motorbike. ”She said ‘I didn’t do it on purpose. I won’t look again.’ By then I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way,” the girl’s mother told BBC. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, there were nearly 1,000 women murdered in “honor killings” in Pakistan in 2011. While the case reported in this article concerned a Muslim girl, Muslim converts to Christianity are often the victims of such honor killings.
By Jessica Rodriguez
11/5/2012 Pakistan (Christian Post)- A girl has allegedly been killed for “eyeing a boy.” The tragedy occurred when a Pakistani couple accused their 15 year old daughter of dishonoring their family by looking at a boy, and as a punishment threw acid on her.
The murder was a so-called “honor killing” in Pakistan, a country where reports are common about women killed for marrying or having what are deemed inappropriate relationships by their families.
Mohammad Zafar and his wife Zaheen had spoken to the BBC from jail, and explained the killing, which allegedly took place on Oct. 29.
The victim’s father has said that his daughter turned to look at a boy who drove past them on a motorbike.
He reportedly fiercely scolded her telling her it was wrong to eye a boy in such a way.
”She said ‘I didn’t do it on purpose. I won’t look again.’ By then I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way,” the girl’s mother said, according to the BBC.
The father went on to explain that his family had already been reprimanded by the local community because of their older daughter’s behavior. It appears as though that experience led them to take a much harsher line with their younger daughter, which ultimately led to her death.
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The HRCP released a report stating: ”Throughout the year, women were callously killed in the name of honor when they went against family wishes in any way, or even on the basis of suspicion that they did so. Women were sometimes killed in the name of honor over property disputes and inheritance rights.”
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