Two Ontario parents accused of hitting their daughter and threatening to disfigure her “out of honor” for speaking to boys and once wearing a straitjacket have been able to regain their freedom on bail, but they will no longer be in be able to approach her.
“My father asked my mother to pour acid or boiling oil on my face, shave my head and cut my face because I was flirting with boys. She […] wanted to take me back to Toronto until they arranged a marriage,” Srikanth and Srikanthi Puppala’s daughter said in her statement to police.
The 19-year-old, who studies in Montreal, filed a complaint last week after visiting her parents turned into a nightmare.
It is that as soon as they arrived, the 45-year-old mother would have searched her daughter’s cell phone to find she was speaking to a male friend. Then the mother would have come across a photo of her in a camisole.
“My mother grabbed my hair and banged my head against the table, she threw me on the floor to hit me,” the complainant said.
Suicide
The student’s hell wouldn’t have stopped there. His parents told him to kill himself or they would kill themselves. And when the daughter went to get a knife to take action, the father is said to have told her to wait until they were gone “so as not to get in trouble with the police”.
They then reportedly began hitting their daughter again and, according to her bank statements, called her “fat” for ordering meals online.
Despite opposition from the Crown, the judge agreed to release the 45- and 46-year-old spouses on bail, partly because the girl no longer wanted her incarceration.
“There is a cultural issue that is troubling given that the alleged crimes are based on ‘family honor,'” commented Judge Geneviève Graton, also ordering that they undergo anger therapy.
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