Juvenile sibling rivalry gone too far
Four-year old Nusrat Jahan Mim, whose body was found in a bathroom at Karail slum in Dhaka on Wednesday, was killed by her elder brother, said Rab.
He strangled her "out of jealousy" while she was sleeping, as he felt his sister was loved more by their parents, Rab-1 assistant director Md Kamruzzaman quoted the 14-year-old as saying yesterday.
A team of Rab-1 arrested him from the slum, he told The Daily Star.
During primary interrogation, the fifth-grader of a local school, told Rab that he thought his parents' love for him started to wane after his sister was born.
The boy used to think that his parents became indifferent towards him. He claimed that his father often beat him up without any reason, and his parents used to entertain his sister's wishes, Rab said.
He blamed Mim for everything and the resentment grew over the years. On Wednesday, when he found his father Liton, a fruit vendor, and mother Ruksana Akter, a part-time house help, not at home and Mim was sleeping, he choked her to death, said the Rab official.
The boy first put the body under their bed but later removed to the bathroom as everyone was looking for Mim, he said.
Sohel Mahmud, head of forensic medicine department at Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the autopsy was conducted, said primarily they found that the child was choked to death.
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