Will they depose the uncle that sexually abused her? Her mother knew about it and did nothing. I am sure the father didn't know as Rifqa would have been punished unmercifully. The female victim is always at fault. How many lashes do rape victims get in Islamic countries? 99
Add this to all the many stories I broke in the Rifqa Bary case on the physical abuse of Rifqa and the parents' financial situation. No media picked them up. The media only ran the CAIR narrative (they are working with the family according to anti-Rifqa, pro Islam websites).
Not only is the media criminally negligent in not telling Rifqa's story, but they use this terrible case to seize the opportunity to smear and rank on Christianity. Christianity is the evil in all this, according to the media. The vilification of the good Christian folks who took this girl in turns my stomach. It is evil.
On several occasions friends of Rifqa would bring her down to the school counselor because of bruises on her legs and her arms, beatings suffered at the hands of her father and brother (sounds like Islam Said). The middle school, in a serious dereliction of duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services. Beatings were random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father Mohammad were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab, which she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the landscape of Rifqa's life that she became inured to them, just like Amina and Sarah and Aqsa and every "honor" victim. (more here)
Judge Daniel Dawson presides over the honey colored oak courtroom and sits beneath the large letters: "equal justice under the law". What he doesn't understand is that this is a landmark case - shariah law vs. American rule of law and individual rights.