17 year old maid to be beheaded?

Please read this news paper article, and tell me what you think?


http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=...








Also do you know anymore about the case, and what happened to her?


I heard that an unpredented outcry that the human rights commision is to be imvolved. So there is hope that she will be pardoned.

17 year old maid to be beheaded?
This is an extremely sad case. Like most maids who come to the ME, Rizana's family is probably extremely poor which is why her parents sent her to another country to work as a maid in the first place. The problem is that she lied about her age so that she would be able to get a work visa but she was actually only 17 when she came.





Apparently, the baby that she was feeding started choking; she didn't kill it but of course the parents want someone to blame. The problem is that they're blaming the wrong person. They should be blaming the government and themselves. Why didn't anyone notice that the girl was young? How can a 17 year old and a 23 year old (that's how old she supposedly was when she came) look the same? Couldn't anyone tell something was wrong? This is what irritates me about the system here. Why are such young girls allowed to come and take care of children? How much experience could a teenager possibly have? I'm in my twenties and I still don't feel comfortable handling a newborn and if I think back to when I was 17, I didn't even know how to hold a baby, much less feed it.





What happened was a terrible accident and that's all. I hope someone intervenes and does something because that young innocent girl does not deserve to punished for something that was out of her hands.
Reply:I wonder why there is no update and more attention from the media about this story.There was a case of 8 Bulgarian nurses convicted to death for injecting kids with AIDS in Libya and after more than 8 years and huge pressure from the European Nations and USA they was finally freed last month.After that even the libian president son admitted that the nurses were tortured into confessing.


Is very sad that things like this happen.
Reply:I'm not a lawyer, but in any murder case there must be a motive that drives the murderer to do so. The motive could be money, revenge, angry, etc. If the killer doesn't have a motive, he/she might be having mental illness or otherwise it's an accident. Does she have a motive to chock that newborn baby? I doubt it. I think it was an accident.





I don't criticize Sharia Law in Saudi (many have done it) but I'm very upset with that family for the following reasons:


- They hired her for housemaid, then why they employed her to babysit a newborn baby. It needs special skills. That family is just too cheap to hire a special babysitter for their newborn baby. So they must realize that this accident was partly caused by them too.


- Forgiveness is part of Islamic value. That family cannot get blood money anyway because that maid is poor. So why don't they just give the pardon to her? It will be highly rewarded in judgment day (of course, if they believe in it). Chopping that girl's head doesn't bring the baby back alive.





I sincerely ask that Saudi family to pardon her. This is a good chance to show the world the true value of forgiveness in Islamic world, because this case is widely covered by international media.





Ma'a salama.
Reply:The criminal justice system in Saudi Arabia is based on Sharia which is to say, a medieval system.





Almost every major Human Rights organization the the world has denounced Saudi Arabia for its use of torture to extract confessions and its mistreatment of foreigners and women.





Certainly, if this women is factually guilty of the crime then she deserves to be punished.





But whether this woman is actually guilty of the crime of which she has been convicted is unknowable because those who carried out the investigation and tried the case did not act in accordance with generally recognized standards of civilized legal procedure.
Reply:THAT CRAZY SH*T WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN THE USA WHERE I LIVE. ACCIDENTS HAPPEN I MEAN IT IS TERRIBLE THAT A CHILD DIED BUT IF IT WAS AN ACCIDENT SHE SHOULDN'T DIE. HASN'T SHE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH
Reply:Sounds like an accident. Is beheading appropriate for an accident?





Did the maid have any chance at proving her innocence? Or is this a case of the family demanding that someone pays for their loss?
Reply:So sad.....It's wired that the accident occurred in the first week of her work. So I assume since she can't speak Arabic so didn't understood the instructions moreover it's wrong to make a teenager take care of infant the mother is the one who should take care of the baby even if she sick she should get help someone with an experience……I hope that mams never ever let someone else take of their children . maids spoiled the children they don't educate, discipline or teach the children manners……because it's not their job it's the mother and father responsibility…….


the one who should questioned and take the responsibility is the mother who gives up her duty to someone else without knowing if this person qualified or not and whoever made the fake papers of the maid age should be punished.
Reply:This is a very good example of the grave outcome when you send a person from country A to country B when things go bad. Political and human rights issues will be significantly considered. It then becomes an international dilemma and may even strain ties. If she killed the poor kid and death is in the law of that nation, then may God have mercy on her soul.
Reply:this nonsense things will never happen in my country


india
Reply:Be warned: some countries live by different codes.


Anyone contemplating going to a country with a system that appears abhorent, should stay away.