Domestic Violence Against Women in Jordan

A Jordanian weekly recently reported that a man surrendered to the police and confessed to slaughtering his daughter 'like a sheep'. He killed her because she was pregnant, even though the lover was willing to marry her. As soon as the father found out about the pregnancy, he went home, asked the visitors present to leave, took a sharp knife from the kitchen and dragged his daughter to the roof where he slaughtered her.