Honor Killing over Molestation, Gynecological Exam

A Turkish immigrant in Scottsville, New York has been charged with the murder of his wife. He claims that his actions were taken as a matter of “honor.” Why? He attacked his wife and 22-year-old daughter after learning that they had been molested by the man’s brother. He tried to kill his four-year-old daughter because she had been “sullied” by a gynecological exam.

The Democrat & Chronicle reports:

”I was concerned that my family’s honor was taken,” he allegedly told investigators. ... His 39-year-old wife died after being stabbed repeatedly and bludgeoned on the head with a hammer. His daughters suffered fractured skulls from hammer blows. ”If you had the opportunity to kill the family again, would you?” he was asked by Rochester police Officer Emre Arican, who was brought in to help investigators because he speaks Turkish. ”My female family, yes. My male family, no,” Peltek allegedly replied.

Peltek is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday before County Court Judge John J. Connell on two counts of murder: intentional murder and murder displaying “a depraved indifference to human life.” Peltek was also charged originally with two counts of attempted second-degree murder for wounds suffered by his daughters. Those charges weren’t included in Friday’s indictment but are pending, Randall said.

I’ve written about these so-called “honor” killings before and I never cease to be simultaneously amazed and disgusted at a culture that teaches the women must die in such a way and for such reasons. Through no fault of her own, a women can sully the “honor” of a man who must then kill her - mother or daughter, sister or wife. But what sort of “honor” can such a man have in the first place? A man who thinks that his female relatives must be killed for such reasons has no honor, no dignity, and probably no real manhood in the first place.

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