Child ‘killed by stepmother’
A three and a half years’ old child was allegedly killed by her stepmother in Shonakhali village of Morrelganj upazila on Friday.
The body of the child, Umme Halima alias Khadija, daughter of Abdul Hadi Mallik in the village, was found in a pond near her house. Doctors pronounced her dead after she was taken to a local hospital.
KM Azizul Islam, Morrelganj Police Station officer-in-charge, said after the girl’s family raised murder allegation against her stepmother, they sent the body to Bagerhat Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy to ascertain the cause of her death.
Halima’s grandfather Abdul Aziz Mallik claimed that his daughter-in-law Sima Begum killed her stepdaughter Halima -- whom Sima often beat up -- by feeding her milk tainted with poison and fled the house after dumping her body in the pond.
Before fleeing, Sima took her child along and stole money from the house, he said, adding that his son married Sima after Halima’s mother died while giving birth to her.
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