{"id":21515,"date":"2013-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/21515\/saudi-preacher-who-raped-and-killed-5-year-old-daughter-gets-off-with-light-sentence"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:31:47","slug":"saudi-preacher-who-raped-and-killed-5-year-old-daughter-gets-off-with-light-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/21515\/saudi-preacher-who-raped-and-killed-5-year-old-daughter-gets-off-with-light-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Preacher Who Raped and Killed 5-Year-Old Daughter Gets Off With Light Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"There are no words to describe the sheer evil that is Fayhan Al-Ghamdi. There is no punishment severe enough for his crime.
Ghamdi, a prominent Muslim preacher who appeared regularly on Muslim television shows, admitted himself to prison after confessing to beating his 5-year-old daughter, Lama Ghamdi, with a cane and cables. Globalpost.com<\/a> reports that Ghamdi got off on a ridiculously light charge, and was required to spend only a short time in jail and pay a $50,000 fine\u2014”blood money” made to the Lama’s relatives.
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AFP reports that Lama arrived to the hospital on Christmas day, 2011 with a massive amount of injuries\u2014including a crushed skull, broken ribs, broken back and left arm, extensive bruising and burns. Social Worker Randa al-Kaleeb said that Lama had been raped “everywhere”, and the victim’s own mother said that hospital staff had told her that the “child’s rectum had been torn open and the abuser had attempted to burn it closed.”
In a heart-wrenching video by MBC, Lama’s mother describes the horrific scene in Arabic, saying that Ghamdi was “not human.” Tears inexplicably fall as you watch a 5-year-old little girl fighting for her life in a hospital bed, covered head-to-toe with tubes and casts.