The sentencing of Sara Sharif's father highlights public anger and calls for accountability from institutions. While the government proposes new legislation to address child safety gaps, the case exposes a troubling pattern of misogyny that contributed to Sara's tragic death.
Listening to the sentencing in the Sara Sharif trial, it's hard not to be gripped with anger and disbelief. Every detail evokes more horror than the last - the description of her small broken body, the note left by her father, her killer, that said 'I lost it', the lengths her abusers went to cover up their crimes. What follows is the need to blame, to get answers and to feel that something urgent must be done to ensure this never happens again.
But it wasn't the ease of home-schooling or the lack of data sharing that caused Sara's death, it was the troubling misogyny that runs through this case like a deadly thread. During the sentencing the judge described how she was forced to take on childcare and cleaning duties, was relentlessly beaten for being spirited instead of submissive, and how her older brother was spared the same fate.
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