“Strange motives” .. a new crime of the mother who killed her child and ate his corpse

The proceedings of the first trial sessions of the woman accused of killing her child in a horrific way began in Faqous, Sharkia Governorate, in the Delta of Egypt.

The eyes of Egyptians inside and outside the country are directed towards the Zagazig Criminal Court in Sharkia Governorate. Hana Mohamed Hassan, who is currently hearing the first trial session of Mrs. Faqous, who is accused of killing her son inside her home within the vicinity of the Faqous police station.

Exactly 50 days ago, on the evening of Wednesday, April 26, the details of the heinous crime began when the accused Hana, the thirty-seven-year-old housewife, determined and intended her crime after planning it. She pulled her five-year-old son, Saad M.S., from his room before hitting his head with a wooden stick, “an ax hand”, which she had prepared for her crime in the vicinity of the Faqous police station.

The child fell to the ground but was still in the world of the living, so the accused mother ran to the kitchen and brought a knife with which she cut off the head of the victim child to be assured of his death, and when she finished slaughtering, she began to flay the head and cut the meat into small parts. Someone described her confessions before the investigation authorities at the Faqous police station, as the accused stated that she had returned her son to her stomach, specifically parts of him that she ate with a soup of pieces of his meat after cooking it.

The accused mother confirmed in her confessions that she was afraid for her son from his father and his father’s family, after she had previously separated from him according to a court ruling in a divorce case and suit that she had filed.

The investigation authorities at the Faqous Police Station charged the accused with premeditated murder, and ordered that she be transferred to the criminal trial in the Zagazig Criminal Court, which set today’s session, Saturday, as the date for the first hearing of the accused’s trial, 50 days after her crime.