Sara Sharif

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Sara, aged 10, was found dead in the family home.

The police "want to speak" with Sara's father and his partner, who flew to Pakistan the day before Sara's body was found, and then phoned (don't know who) from there:

The call led officers to the house in Woking where they found the body of Sara who had sustained "multiple and extensive injuries", likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.

Another child suffers at the hands of those who should care. I hope they get them back from Pakistan but I wonder what the chances of that are.

RIP, Sara.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-66563430

That poor little girl. Living with those three monsters.

He also said: "I legally punished her, and she died," saying "she was naughty", and adding: "I beat her up, it wasn't my intention to kill her, but I beat her up too much".

What an absolute scumbag. I hope he rots in prison.

That poor little girl.

I really hope they don't get off due to them turning on each other!

I've just read a news report on and feel like crying. What a terrible life of fear she must have had. Being burned with an iron and everything else. Sometimes it would be nice to think there really is a hell so her dad etc could burn in it

Was she not attending school? I can't see how those kind of injuries could have been missed if she was going to school. They must have withdrawn her. Poor little girl.

Yes they took her out of school to "home school" her to hide the abuse.

I may get flamed for this but I don't think parents should be allowed to take their children out of the school system for exactly that reason. So many adults have been able to carry out the most awful abuse on children when the children have not been in school.

If you read the BBC article from today you will see that she started wearing a hijab to hide injuries, school had noticed bruising, neighbours had concerns ( but not reported), her stepmum had sent messages to her sister talking about the abuse in some detail. Yet it carried on. This all happened before she was "withdrawn" ( to use the BBC'S terminology) from school.

After reading what the neighbours could hear through the walls, I can't understand why they didn't report it to social services. What they heard was blatantly child abuse.

Possibly lowlife types themselves, indifferent to child abuse or find it unremarkable.

I will never understand these type of cases. The parents didn't want her, why didn't they just dump her on social services doorstep and and say they couldn't manage her anymore. I just don't understand parents killing their children. There are people in this country who would have given her a good life.

I agree. I feel ill reading the papers today.

They hooded her and taped the hood over her head and face. They then hit her with a cricket bat so badly she couldn't walk.

Her hair was pulled out by the roots.
For two years they did this.

I can't actually comprehend how or why people would do this to a child.

Any why wasn't the screaming followed up by the police and neighbours.

What sort of a society are we becoming that this visible abuse is ignored by so many?

I did wonder if it should be made illegal to not report suspicions of abuse. Totally unenforceable but the stepmother sent her sisters text messages admitting Sara was being abused by her husband and they also did nothing.

It's so sad Sara couldn't speak out. If she'd been able to alert someone while she was still at school she could have been helped. The fear and control they must have had over her is heartbreaking.

I also can't understand why the neighbours didn't do more. The flat they lived in before the move to the house was in a communal block. There were neighbours all around and it's in an area where people generally do care about each other. How did so many miss it or not act on it.

Parental alienation...an abusive parent stops or obstructs childs contact with other parent. Usually there's been a campaign denignating the unsuspecting victim parent, who has done nothing wrong. False or exaggerated allegations are made. The victim parent is made out to be unsafe, a druggie or abuser, the child aligns with the alienating parent against the other parent. By the time the court gets round to disproving the allegations ... about 2 years approx. The damage has been done, the child says they don't want to stay with the victim 'safe' parent and Cafcass say it would be too traumatic to move them back to lives with victim parent. They go with child's voice as their best interest, but as we know that voice is twisted either through alignment or fear of the abusive range parent. Court ordered contact is granted to other parent, which is broken as child says they don't want to see them. The stigma against a safe mother, who has been rejected by her child, is immense...as you can see from all the accusers above. Parental alienation is rife in the UK because famiky courts are so easily weaponised by abusive range parents, as Cafcass are not qualified to diagnose underlying pathology in abusive range parents. So they leave chikdren without support in abusive situations. When the abusive parent breaks court ordered contact the courts do nothing, so child arrangement order becomes not worth the paper they are written on. Parental alienation is horrible as it doesn't exist in uk law and no-one calls out the underlying abuse

Nope. The father took poor Sara and her brother off their mother through the family courts. This happens all the time - abusive men keep attacking their expartners through their children, and the courts enable and empower these evil men.

This is the most egregious example, but kids are living with their mothers' abusers up and down this country, backed by the entirely evidence-free made up concept of parental alienation.

It should go without saying who the wicked evil monsters are are here.

But what happened to the safe guarding aspect at school?
A an all child comes in beaten up and they say how did you get those bruises?

Why wasn't gust refereed on.

And neighbours heads screams and didn't report it...

@ShyGreyMentor great post thank you.

I think they have the death sentence in Pakistan. Fingers crossed….

Just googled it. There was a moratorium in 2022, and now over 6,000 prisoners are on death row in Pakistan!

One neighbour said she thought about it but didn't because the children always appeared to be well dressed!

They're being tried in the UK though. The father is 29 so all being well he'll get at least 30 years so his life will be pretty much over

The father is not 29. He is 42 apparently! Must be the uncle that is 29 as the wife is around 30 too.

What’s happened to the other thread on this?

absolutely terrible. As more details emerge, it just gets even more harrowing.
This is local to me.