Thursday, July 05, 2007

India: Baby girl survives being buried alive...

"Oh, poor thing," I'm sure you're thinking. "It must have occurred in a natural catastrophe or accident of some kind. .."

Wrong.

She was buried by her grandfather, Abdul Rahman, who said he "couldn't afford to marry off his four daughters, much less another granddaughter." There was no word on the role of the mother.

Think he's Muslim? We'll never know from the article which goes on to cite the "rural nature' of female infanticide and foeticide.