BEIRUT: Lebanese police arrested Thursday a Syrian father who was on the run for beating his two daughters, a security source told The Daily Star.
The arrest came one day after Al-Jadeed aired an interview with Zeinab Hasno, a badly bruised 13-year-old girl, and her mother, who said the teen's father had been beating his girls for three years.
Zeinab said she had recently fled the house and informed the police that her father, Omar, had been abusing the girls.
When Zeinab returned home, the father beat her even harder using metal tools, she told Al-Jadeed.
The footage showed the girl with cuts and bruises across her body, including her face and arms.
"[He beats me] with a hose, with a whip, with a belt, with cords, whatever he finds in front of him, he uses to beat me," the girl explained.
The girl’s mother, who had divorced the Zeinab's father, told Al-Jadeed that she went to their house earlier this week in Beirut’s southern suburbs and took the sisters from Omar.
The mother then went to a police station to file a report. The police later raided the father’s home on three occasions in the Laylaki neighborhood, but he escaped each time.
Al-Jadeed’s reporter interviewed the man’s new wife on the phone. She defended her husband, saying that it is a regular thing in Syria to beat children who disobey their parents.
Omar was arrested Thursday in the same area of his residence after being chased by police, the security source said.
The man was charged with the “brutal beating of minors that could have resulted in death,” the source added.
He confessed to beating the children, and was referred to the judiciary.
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