247 Nigeria News Update: Mother Beats Son To Death For Failing To Learn The Quran Off By Heart

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Mother Beats Son To Death For Failing To Learn The Quran Off By Heart Jan 8th 2013, 18:18 A cruel mum who beat her son to death for failing to learn parts of the Koran by heart has been jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 17 years. Sara Ege, 33, was convicted of murder after it was revealed she had burned the body of her seven-year-old boy Yaseen before trying to claim he had died in a house fire. But a murder trial heard she treated little Yaseen like a "dog" and repeatedly beat him with a stick for failing to memorise religious texts quickly enough. Ege collapsed as the sentence was delivered at Cardiff Crown Court and had to be helped, trembling and sobbing, from the dock. Passing sentence trial judge told Ege: "What was your motive for acting as you did? I am satisfied that, on the day of his death, Yaseen was kept home from school so that he could dedicate himself to his (Koran) studies". "On that day Yaseen must have failed in some way because I am satisfied that it was that failure which was the trigger for the beating". "That is what you told the police in the course of your confession in July 2010 and I see no reason to doubt what you then said was true". Ege was found guilty of the murder of her son by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court last month The schoolboy had suffered multiple injuries to his body and died in July 2010 from internal injuries caused by three months of punishing beatings. His death was treated as a terrible tragedy in the aftermath of the blaze but it was quickly found he was dead before it started. Ege accused husband Yousef Ege, 38, who stood trial with his wife, of being a violent bully who beat her and was their son’s real killer. But he was cleared of causing or allowing his son's death at home in Pontcanna, Cardiff, south Wales, by failing to act to prevent it. Ege was found guilty both of murder and of a charge of perverting the course of justice.

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