Man given 4 years in jail for stabbing daughter over 'honor crime'
Police officer on scene allegedly stopped father from stabbing daughter further.
By Fadi EyadatThe Haifa Magistrate's Court on Monday sentenced a man suspected of stabbing his daughter in an "honor crime" to four years in prison and one and half years on probation.
The sentence was given as part of a plea bargain, after the man confessed to all charges against him, which allegedly occurred in May 2006.
According to the charges, the man and his daughter got into an argument over the father's suspicion that the girl had done something to harm the "family honor."
During the argument, the man allegedly chased his daughter with a kitchen knife as she tried to escape. He eventually caught up with her and stabbed her numerous times in her upper body.
A police officer on duty nearby managed to stop the father from stabbing her further. The charges also alleged that during the incident, the father instructed his son to lie during investigation and say he had given his father the knife.
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Stupidly short sentence, attempted murdershould be atleast a 20 year sentence! There needs to be an example set that attempted murder,and murder for so called honor will not be tolerated in this country! All women and children need to be protected, there is no onor in killing, these men need to be proscuted to the fullest extent of the law. If you lock the criminals away for atleast 20 years it will set and eample for other would be honor killers that you will not get away with it, and it may stop other such murders in the future!
What a barbaric culture! Add this crime to the litany of Arab medieval - in its worse sense - mentality. Is this a confirmation that the prison service to be served for an honor killing should be less than a different kind of murder? If so, Israel is in complicity with perpetuating the cult of honor killings and the suppression of Arab women.
The text does not state which further measures are taken to ensure the girl's security. If she is left at the mercy of her family then someone else of her family will be chosen to kill her