Miles to go before we sleep...
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) -- Indian police in the western state of Gujarat have arrested a man accused of killing his six-day-old twin daughters by burying them alive, a police officer said on Friday.
"The father considered the infants as a sign of misfortune," G.S. Malik, superintendent of police, said. "He murdered the six-day-old babies by burying them in a ditch."
Female infanticide and feticide, though illegal in India, are still prevalent in a country where boys are traditionally preferred to girls as breadwinners, and families have to stump up costly dowries to marry off their daughters.
Samantsinh Sodha, a petrol pump attendant in Nakhatrana village, 450 km (280 miles) north of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city, was incensed by the birth of his daughters, his wife said in a complaint filed with police this week.
She told officers he beat her for giving birth to the girls.
Alma-colere see that all life is equally precious. We have a responsibility to all life. Sometimes it seems that we are so far away from reaching the moral goal of that optimistic future portrayed in Roddenberry's Star Trek.
Oh, Almavore...oh, young culture...domination...competition...lack of care... |
