Yemeni Girl Dies After Brutal Torture by Step-Mother and Siblings

Seven-year-old girl, Rahma Al-Jabari, met her death as a result of severe wounds and brutal torture inflicted by her father's wife and children, according to medical and judicial reports, while her four siblings survived death in an incident that shocked the province of Ibb in Yemen.

The Revolutionary Educational Hospital reported in its official statement that the victim's body bore "severe torture marks, including scattered bruises, recent and old burns, wounds on the head and neck, as well as deformities in the hands due to deep burns, and an injury around the right eye."

The Public Prosecution confirmed in its statement that the death resulted from "complications of external violence due to the severity of the torture the girl was subjected to."

The torture also extended to Rahma's four siblings, Majahid, Nabilah (6 years old), Qamar (2 years old), and Naib (5 years old), who were rushed to the hospital in critical condition but miraculously survived, according to the same sources.

In her testimony to the local press, the children's mother recounted that "the tragedy began after the death of her husband, who forcibly took their children and placed them under the care of his ex-wife, but he met his death less than a month later at the hands of his brother during a dispute over a piece of land."

She added: "I tried to regain my children after the mourning period, but the father's wife and her children violently refused, and I resorted to the courts, but the crime was faster."

The family involved in the incident is facing judicial investigations for charges of torture and murder, amid local demands for the maximum punishment to be imposed on the perpetrators.