Shafia family found guilty for "honor" killings

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Sometimes it's hard to understand the depths people will sink to when they're convinced they're right.

Makes me think of a story my dad told me when I was younger.

Being a Paramedic he was out doing a call on a young child who had apparently stopped breathing and needed help. When they got there it was too late to help the kid, so while checking out the baby they found marks on its neck. After questioning the father, who was a Chinese immigrant as to what happened, he simply said, "It was a girl, so we got rid of it". My dad was completely flabbergasted (he said this was about a year after my sister was born..) that this man could so easily come clean about this and not seem to show any remorse. After calling the police and finishing his reports and everything, he figured out the reasoning behind why the father had killed this baby girl. (Chinese population control methods..)

He said that this was probably one of the most disturbing childrens cases he'd ever answered.