Remember when missing curfew usually resulted in some form of mild punishment? Well, not to 40-year-old Johra Kaliki, who admitted to stabbing her 19-year-old daughter, Bahar Ebrahimi, for coming home late. The Canadian mom admitted to police that she stabbed Ebrahimi with a kitchen knife after missing curfew two nights in a row in June 2010.
The horrendous scene unfolded after Kaliki told her husband to leave the basement where he was speaking to Ebrahimi, when the mom whipped out a large kitchen knife from under her shirt and admitted to stabbing her daughter in the neck because it was "for her own good." Ebrahimi survived the attack, but there was a family history of her parents struggling with her rebellion against their Muslim faith and disobeying curfew.
According to the Canadian National Post, Johra felt she had failed as a parent and thought stabbing her daughter would teach her a lesson. Uh, what?! Teenage rebellion is very common, but to stab your own kid? That can't even be justified even in the court of law! The worst part is Kaliki believed she had a right to commit the act because she was Ebrahimi's mother and said, "It's my daughter, I can do what I want."
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The mom even went to the extent to explain to police that she did it to grant her daughter peace and said, "[It] will make her strong and give her wisdom. . . . It means she will give up her ways of living." Despite her initial callous comments after the attack, Kaliki changed her mind after police interrogated her and expressed tearful remorse claiming to have gone against her religion.
If convicted during her trial which is currently ongoing, Kaliki could be charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and illegal use of a weapon.
It's crazy how some parents can take discipline to the extreme without thinking of the consequences. Understandably this mom was upset that her daughter was disobeying her, but reacting violently resolves nothing and now she's facing criminal prosecution. Hopefully this case is properly taken care of and teaches parents that there are better ways to handle unruly teenagers.
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