Somali Father Beats 10year Stepson to death

[OdaySomali]

Somali Woman Locks 5 Children In Closet, 2 Found Dead

 

INDIANAPOLIS (CBS/AP) A Somali woman claims she "was not in her right mind" when she allegedly locked her five children inside a closet before leaving to visit a friend. Ten hours later she returned to find her 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter dead inside.

 

An Indianapolis police report released Tuesday said 28-year-old Edyan Farah allegedly put her five children in an upstairs closet, approximately 6 feet long and 18 inches deep, around 6:00 a.m. Sunday and barricaded the door with a large bed so the children could not escape.

 

When Farah returned home about 10 1/2 hours later and opened the closet she found her 5-year-old daughter, Zuhur, and 3-year-old son, Zakariya, "stiff and unresponsive," according to the report.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20017258-504083.html

[Juxa]

Xiimaaye, when i wrote my comment, the police were saying it was not clear what killed the boy, of course since then the man admitted. marka istartiibi.

 

Allaha unaxariisto the boy. At times women dont think the men they marry,specially when they have children from previous marriages. I personally think a mother should vet carefully before jumping into guur. Even better she should iney ilmaheeda korsato.

 

Either way, this is senseless loss of life, as blessed said somali badan bey okeey la tahay beating kids.

[Che -Guevara]

OdaySomali;820803 wrote:

But its typical of the Somali people. Axmaqnimo waa u hiddo iyo dhaqan. Naxariis ma yaqaanaan. Hence why their country is in the state that it is in. Isuma naxariistaan, looma naxariiste e'.

Easy with the generalizations.

[Che -Guevara]

'I don't want to go back with him': Setpfather confessed to police he beat boy to death

 

Neighbor chillingly recalls 10-year-old's fear of returning home to stepfather, who hours later confessed to police he beat boy to death

 

Friday, April 20, 2012

Ten-year-old Abdifatah Mohamud was running for his life down Sycamore Street at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a concerned neighbor stopped to try to help.

 

Seeing the boy's stepfather chasing after him, the neighbor helped the man, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, catch up with the child.

 

The boy didn't want to go home with Mohamud.

 

"I told the boy, 'Daddy promises nothing is going to happen,'" the neighbor later told The Buffalo News.

 

"The boy said to me: 'No, he always says that.'"

 

Less than six hours later, Abdifatah was dead, brutally beaten, and his stepfather, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, was under arrest.

 

The boy was tied to a chair with duct tape, a sock stuffed in his mouth, and he was beaten with a stick or blunt object in the basement of their Guilford Street home, near the Broadway Market, authorities said.

 

The stepfather was angry because the boy, a fifth-grader at the International Preparatory School on Clinton Street, had fallen behind in his homework, law enforcement officials said.

 

The neighbor, a mother of young children, sobbed as she recalled how she intervened, persuading the boy to go with his stepfather and even drivingthem back to their house.

 

"Your daddy says everything will be OK," the neighbor recalled telling the boy, asking that her name not be published. "I may have been the last person to see that little boy alive."

 

During the short ride home, she said, the stepfather offered repeated assurances that Abdifatah would be fine.

 

"I told the boy, 'You go home, and if something does happen, you let me know tomorrow morning,'" the neighbor said.

 

Mohamud, 40, a native of Somalia who has been in the United States for a decade, was charged with second-degree murder. Police investigators were shocked over the viciousness of the beating, according to Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, who struggled Wednesday to find words to comment on the case.

 

"Every homicide is bad, but it is particularly hard to deal with for first responders, police and others, when it is a 10-year-old child," Derenda said. "In talking to investigators, I was told it was one of the most grisly crime scenes that they can remember, and some have been here 40 years."

 

Erie County Assistant District Attorney Thomas M. Finnerty, at Mohamud's arraignment Wednesday, told City Judge Diane Wray that Mohamud admitted beating his stepson to death.

 

"The defendant admitted he tied up his 10-year-old stepson, admitted that he put a sock in his mouth, put duct tape over the mouth and beat him to death with a stick or similar blunt object," Finnerty said.

 

Ferry Fillmore District Police Officer Christopher Fields, responding to a call from the boy's mother of a missing person, entered 30 Guilford St. at about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday and searched the house.

 

In the basement, he found the child's body, partially hidden under a blanket.

 

Mohamud, a security guard who is employed by U.S. Security Associates and worked at The Buffalo News, fled from the house in a red Subaru Forester and called his work supervisor, asking him to meet him at the newspaper.

 

The supervisor tried to find out what was wrong during the phone call, but Mohamud refused to say, according to a report the supervisor later filed.

 

At 11 p.m., the two met at the newspaper, and Mohamud confessed to the killing, according to the supervisor's report.

 

"I have a lot of problems and killed one of my kids," Mohamud told the supervisor, according to his report.

 

Mohamud had come to The News to remove his possessions from his work locker, the supervisor reported.

 

Police in the area spotted Mohamud's vehicle parked near The News building and approached the Scott Street entrance.

 

The supervisor told police that Mohamud was in the building and led them to him in the locker room. Mohamud then stood up, and police handcuffed him.

 

At Buffalo Police Headquarters, Mohamud cooperated with Detective Sgt. James Lonergan and provided police with a statement "indicating his involvement in the death of his stepson," Detective Chief Dennis J. Richards said.

 

But none of this could comfort the neighbor who had tried to help the boy she spotted running down Sycamore with his school knapsack.

 

"It wasn't normal," the neighbor recounted. "I was trying to pull over, but there was traffic behind me. Then I saw his father on the other side of Sycamore. He was running after him and trying to stop cars to get across the street and catch him."

 

When the traffic had finally passed her eastbound car on Sycamore, she swung around and drove up to the stepfather, heading toward Jefferson Avenue.

 

"I asked, 'What's going on?' and he said his son was running away and he was trying to catch him. He asked if I would give him a ride, and I did. He said he didn't want anything to happen to him.

 

"We spotted the boy on Jefferson, and he was trying to jump over a fence. The father got out of the car and held him by the hand. The boy said to me he wanted to go to a family member's house on Auburn Avenue.

 

"He said: 'I don't want to go back with him.' He would not sit in the back seat of the car with his father. He said he wanted to sit in [the] front seat next to me. I told him, 'You come home with me and we'll wait for your mother, or if you have the phone number, we'll call your family on Auburn.'"

 

At that point, the neighbor, an immigrant from Africa like the Mohamuds, said the boy calmed down a little.

 

By 5:20 p.m., she said, she had pulled up in front of the boy's house, and the stepfather and boy went inside.

 

The neighbor sobbed Wednesday recounting the episode.

 

Mohamud is married to the boy's mother, Shukri, and both have children from previous relationships for a total of six children, according to police, neighbors and acquaintances.

 

Richards declined to comment on a motive, but neighbors said the father could be very strict, especially when it came to the youngsters doing their homework.

 

"The father wanted him to study and study. He told me, 'I check his homework every night, and his grades are going down,'" said Tariq Butt, whose family watched Abdifatah's two younger siblings after their brother's body was discovered.

 

Butt, an acquaintance of the Mohamud family, said the stepfather had confided in him that he was upset with Abdifatah for falling behind in his homework.

 

"I always had this feeling that the father was strict," Butt said, and added that Abdifatah was a well-behaved youngster.

 

Back on Guilford Street, as neighbors congregated throughout the day to discuss the death, Johnny Alexander, a longtime Guilford resident, offered this explanation for a killing that defied logic:

 

"You just never know what's going on in people's homes."

 

Mohamud is scheduled to return to City Court at 2 p.m. Monday for further proceedings. In the meantime, he is being held without bail in the Erie County Holding Center.

 

lmichel@buffnews.com

 

http://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2012/Apr/23720/_i_don_t_want_to_go_back_with_him_setpfather_confessed_to_police_he_beat_boy_to_death.aspx

[Nin-Yaaban]

OdaySomali;820803 wrote:

But its typical of the Somali people. Axmaqnimo waa u hiddo iyo dhaqan. Naxariis ma yaqaanaan. Hence why their country is in the state that it is in. Isuma naxariistaan, looma naxariiste e'.

Hmmm, what does that have to do with the topic? Let's focus.

[SpectaKooler]

Allahu nahariisto that poor baby. My heart bled when I read that bit in the article about his last words to that white lady being "No, he always promises that he won't hurt me, but he does." Clearly a child who'd been tormented one too many times. What of his own mom, for goodness sakes? I dont buy that she didn't know. Hope this murderer gets to meet his maker soon, and before that his match!

[Coofle]

Aragnaa waxa lagu xukumo...

[Blessed]

Nin-Yaaban;821231 wrote:

Hmmm, what does that have to do with the topic? Let's focus.

It has everything to do with the thread, because children learn what they live. Somaali waa violent because ilmaha isaga oo yar ayaa la baraa in dagaaluun wax lagu saxo. Kolay ninkanwiilka dilay laftigiisu dil iyo dagaal ayuu ku soo koray. Wada hadal iyo doodwadaag dadkeenu khilaafadka dhexmara kuma saxaan ee dagaal ayay ku boodaan, waxaaba la isku caaya haduu qofku dagaal ka tanaasulo oo damiir la'aan iyo dhiig la'aan ayaa lagu tilmaama. Illayn dad dagaal iyo xoog sheegasho lagu soo koriyay ayaan nahee.

[Nin-Yaaban]

Update:

 

Somali man get's 25yrs for killing stepson.

 

Buffalo, NY

. Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III called Mohamud’s killing of his stepson “one of the worst cases” he has seen in his 24 years as a prosecutor.

 

The details of how the fifth-grader from International Preparatory School was stabbed, suffocated and beaten to death April 17 shocked the community.

[Narniah]

Jurors last month convicted Mohamud after hearing prosecutor Thomas M. Finnerty describe how Mohamud inflicted “devastating blow after devastating blow” on the 4-foot, 11-inch boy, who weighed just less than 100 pounds, separating the boy’s skull from his spinal cord and crushing the back of his head, exposing his brain.

This man should not be imprisoned he should be beheaded.

[Abwaan]

Narniah, Ilaahay xisaabtiisa ayaa isaga iyo annagaba na wada sugeysa. This was a very shocking murder. It is just sad that such a man was close to kids. I hope that our community takes this as a lesson wherever they are. A lot of problems have engulfed Somali families and the reality is ignored and dismissed by many, while the common kutiri-kuteen is "Oh, Cali iyo Caasho ayaa is qabtay, odayaal baa isku celiyey, may ilmaheeda iska korsato maxay isla walaysaa, naaguhu ayaantaan waa waasheen, ciyaalkii waa hallaabeen, nimankii kulli qaad bay cunaan, dumarkii waa single mother iyo shiishaa dishey"

[oba hiloowlow]

I heard the the killer hated the kids clan and use to badmouth them in fadhi ku dirir sessions maybe he took out his anger on the kid which eventually lead to the death of the poor, saqiir.He is a monster odayga i hope he burns in hell

[oba hiloowlow]

Narniah;890194 wrote:

This man should not be imprisoned he should be beheaded.

+1

[Abwaan]

oba hiloowlow;890197 wrote:

I heard the the killer hated the kids clan and use to badmouth them in fadhi ku dirir sessions maybe he took out his anger on the kid which eventually lead to the death of the poor, saqiir.He is a monster odayga i hope he burns in hell

that might be true or not but he must be regretting it now. Shallaay waa shay xaaraan ah!

[oba hiloowlow]

Abwaan Allahu Aclam inkasto somali iska war badan yihiin this is the word on the street