Mom Gets 17 to Life For Killing 7-year-old Son Over Quran Memorization

The 33-year-old mother who killed her 7-year-old son Yaseen by brutally beating him with a stick for struggling with memorizing the Quran was finally sentenced after being convicted last year. Sara Ege will get life in a Welsh prison with a minimum of 17 years for her actions. The woman who apparently treated him like a "dog", was constantly beating him for his struggles with the Quran, and after she beat him to death set her house on fire so she wouldn't get caught.

The schoolboy had suffered multiple injuries to his body and died in July 2010 from internal injuries caused by three months of punishing beatings.

Ege set fire to the family house to hide her actions and played the part of a parent mourning the tragic death of her son until it was discovered in a post-mortem that Yaseen had been dead before the blaze started.

Mr Justice Wyn Williams ordered her to serve a minimum of 17 years behind bars and said: "The violence that you perpetrated on your son was not confined to one day.

"I am satisfied that, over three months, you beat him on a number of occasions, often with a wooden pestle.

"His injuries must have caused him a good deal of pain. In my judgment Yaseen was subjected to prolonged cruelty."

The judge accepted the defence's argument that India-born Ege was "a devoted and loving mother" who suffered from depression and domestic violence.

Ege accused her 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.

Whether dad was an abuser or not, how was he cleared of any responsibility? For 3 months mum mercilessly beats her son and dad doesn't do anything to stop the abuse? That's unforgivable.

UK Mom Kills Her 7-Year-Old For Failing To Memorize The Koran

Here's another heartbreaking story with Islam taking center stage, but in this case you can't blame it on some ignorant peasants in a rural village in Pakistan. This horrifying incident took place in the U.K. and was perpetrated by a university educated 32-year-old woman.

A mother murdered her young son and set his body on fire when he struggled to learn the Koran off by heart, a court has heard.

Sara Ege used a stick to beat seven-year-old Yaseen “like a dog” if he couldn’t recite passages from the Islamic text.

The beatings were so brutal that the boy died from his injuries, and his mother tried to burn the body to destroy the evidence, Cardiff Crown Court was told.

Yaseen was originally thought to have died in the house fire. But a post-mortem examination showed Mrs Ege had been beating and abusing her little boy in the months leading up to his murder.

In a videotaped interview with Police Ege said:

“I was trying to teach him the Koran. “I was getting more and more frustrated. If he didn’t read it properly I would be very angry — I would hit him. “We had a high target. I wanted him to learn 35 pages in three months. “I promised him a new bike if he could do it. But Yaseen wasn’t very good — after a year of practice he had only learnt a chapter.”

Good Lord, he was a seven year old child who should have been out playing ball with his friends, not holed up somewhere trying to memorize the Koran. Apparently, Yaseen's parents had very unrealistic goals for a child who obviously had trouble with memorization.

[they] had enrolled Yaseen in advanced classes at their local mosque.

They wanted him to become a hafiz — an Islamic term for someone who memorises the Koran.

Yaseen was coming to the end of a three-month trial period at the mosque, and Ege was keen for him to impress his Imam.

Mrs Ege told officers: “I was getting all this bad stuff in my head, like I couldn’t concentrate, I was getting angry too much, I would shout at Yaseen all the time.”

She also hit him with a hammer, a rolling pin and a slipper, as well as repeatedly punching him, the court heard.

She would allegedly lock him in the shed, tie him to a door, and force him to do press-ups.

She claims Shaitan (the devil) made her do it, and perhaps she is mentally ill, but it probably had more to do with her ambitions for the child being thwarted rather than mental illness. But it makes one wonder: if the child was being tortured by the mother, where the hell was her 38-year-old father Yousuf? Why didn't he stop the abuse? Daddy, of course, is saying he is not guilty of

... causing or allowing the death of a child by not stopping the beatings.

Heck yes, he is. They both need to spend a very long time in jail.