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Man hacks children to spite 'bossy' wife
April 02 2004 at 02:21PM
Cairo - An Egyptian schoolteacher hacked his three children to death "as martyrs" to spite his bossy wife for years of humiliation and abuse, a government-owned newspaper reported on Friday.
The 51-year-old man from Minya in southern Egypt confessed to killing his son and two daughters with an axe as they played blind-man's bluff, all three blindfolded, the Al-Ahram daily said.
The unnamed man was arrested in Cairo after fleeing to the capital's Khan Khalili tourist district following the grisly crime.
"My wife is to blame for everything. She took over everything: our seven-storey building, car, the money in the bank, the product of 12 years working abroad," the paper quoted the man's confession as saying.
"She considered us, our children and me, as private property," it added.
"She always had the last word, up to the point where she ordered me to spend the night in the park near the house. I ended up hating her, but I adored my children, before whom I felt I was no longer a man.
Honey,,,go sleep in the park tonight!
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