Three-month-old Afreen
died in the hospital. Authorities say the baby was admitted to the
hospital with bite marks, cigarette burns and a dislocated neck. Police
say she was killed by her father.
"After my delivery my husband had come to see me and the baby. He said, 'It is a girl, why did you give birth to a girl?'"
He wanted a boy, an heir.
Girls were too expensive, he said. A couple of days after giving birth,
Banu says her husband gave an ultimatum.
"For her wedding we will
require a hundred thousand rupees (about US$1,800 dollars) for all the
expense. If you can get that amount from your mother, then keep her, but
if you can't, then kill her," Reshma recalled her husband as saying.
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