The Grand Criminal Court in Jordan sentenced a man to 20 years of hard labor for strangling his two-year-old daughter in the capital, Amman, and taking pictures of her to send to his ex-wife to provoke her. The court's ruling stated that a year before the crime, which occurred in January 2024, marital and family disputes arose between the defendant and his complaining ex-wife due to the former's drug use and alcohol consumption, as well as his desire to involve the complainant in begging and prostitution, which she rejected, leading her to leave their marital home.
Following this, the complainant filed for a separation and litigation in the Sharia court against the defendant, eventually obtaining a ruling for her divorce. According to Jordanian media, the defendant attempted several times to persuade the complainant to return to him, but she consistently refused, and he threatened her regarding their daughter, saying, "I swear I will burn your heart over her."
The ruling clarified that based on an agreement with the complainant, the murdered child was living with her father at his family's home until he contacted his ex-wife to return the child to her, but she informed him that she was out of the province and asked him to bring her the next day.
Jordanian sources reported that the defendant saw a picture of his ex-wife via the "WhatsApp" application with another person, which enraged him. As a result, he took the child to an area south of Amman, placed her in his lap on a dirt patch, and covered her nose and mouth with his hands to suffocate her, leading to her death.
The court's ruling indicated that after verifying his daughter's death, the defendant photographed her and sent the images to her mother, along with an audio recording admitting to killing their daughter, before calling his brother to inform him of what had happened, after which he was arrested.
