Avery short life: Awoman from a village in Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate strangled her baby, born out of wedlock, and got four of her neighbours to bury the tiny girl in the floor of her home. Police arrested her and four other suspects, acting on a tip-off. It was in the village of Ezbet Othman near Dafria that she killed her two-monthold daughter. A couple and two other women helped her conceal the body of the infant, the fruit of her illicit relationship with a young man, whose identity she refuses to reveal. The suspect, named as Asmaa Farid, had been in trouble with the police on six previous occasions for a variety of offences,including 'instigating immorality', scandalous behaviour, theft and begging. When the baby was born, Asmaa, fearing scandal, asked the above mentioned couple, named as Saeeda and Abdel-Fattah, to help her killand bury the newborn. They were assisted by two women named as Yasmine from el-Qanater el-Bayda district of Kafr el- Sheikh and Amal. Toddler's tragedy: There was another tragedy involving a toddler who was kidnapped by a 28-year-old undergraduate called Mahmoud Behaa Eddin in Boulaq el-Dakrour, Giza Governorate over two months ago. The little boy was taken to Nagaa Hamadi in Qena Governorate, where he was thrown in the Nile in a suitcase by his kidnapper and drowned. The young man suspected of killing the baby said it was a crime of revenge, as he'd fallen out with the victim's father over money. The first police heard about the incident was when Mohamed Nour Eddin (35) reported that his four-year-old son, Karim Eddin, had gone missing while playing in the street outside the family's home in Boulaq el- Dakrour. Mohamed, a painter and decorator, accused his wife's brothers of kidnapping the boy. They were arrested then released on bail. Eight days after Karim Eddin went missing, a 51-year-old worker went round to his parents' home in Boulaq with an important message. The worker, Ahmed Hassaan, who lives in el-Omrania, told Mohamed and his wife that their son had been taken to Nagaa Hamadi by a young man and that the kidnapper wanted LE6,000. Ahmed was arrested and revealed the identity of the kidnapper. Giza Police contacted their colleagues in Nagaa Hamadi who went round to where their suspect, Mahmoud, who lives in Boulaq, was staying with his father, in order to arrest him, but their bird had flown, as his father had kicked him out of the house. Fifty-eight days later, Karim Eddin's body was found in the suitcase floating on the Nile. When he'd turned up at his father's flat in Nagaa Hamadi with the little boy, the suspect claimed that he was his son and that he'd married the lad's mother the orfi (unregistered way). The father wasn't impressedwhen he realised that his son had made up the whole story and kicked them out, as mentioned above. By now, Karim Eddin's health had badly deteriorated and Mahmoud decided to get rid of him by dumping him in the Nile. Mahmoud returned to Boulaq after killing the boy. He then moved to el-Sayyeda Zeinab, where he was arrested.
