Domestic violence and poverty result in the death of a two year old girl

According to media reports of the past two days, Kfarshima was shaken by the discovery of a dead baby girl of no more than 2 years old. The baby girl was found by local workers near the rubbish bin with her body covered with bruises and hidden with a blanket.  Following the investigations carried out by the Baabda police station, it was revealed that the mother is from Bangladesh.  Her husband had stolen her money and fled to Tripoli which, according to her, prompted her to kill her daughter since she had no means to raise her and especially since the child suffers from blood and respiratory diseases.  Further interrogation revealed that the mother does little cleaning work which hardly provides her with enough money to pay her rent.  She allegedly felt desperate and thus conspired with her roommates to kill her daughter by strangulation.  The police arrested the mother and her two roommates.  To be noted that L'Orient le Jour also indicated that the mother was also planning to sell her daughter. (Al-Mustaqbal, Daily Star and L'Orient le Jour 16 January 2017)