Could you throw one on a garbage dump?
So it seems, in Muslim Pakistan, where adultery and premarital sex are viewed as crimes but dumping a live baby in a garbage dump and letting it die there isn’t.
In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise. More than 1,000 infants — most of them girls — were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend. The infanticide figures are collected only from Pakistan’s main cities, leaving out huge swathes of the largely rural nation, and the charity says that in December alone it found 40 dead babies left in garbage dumps and sewers.
Then follows in the report a very depressing string of anecdotes about newborns abandoned… It ends thusly-
According to Pakistani law, anyone found to have abandoned an infant can be jailed for seven years, while anyone guilty of secretly burying a child can be imprisoned for two years. Murder is punishable with life imprisonment. But crimes of infanticide are rarely prosecuted.
That’s messed up. Someone tell me again why we’re supporting this barbaric country?
