05-14-2010, 10:31 AM
By William J. Gorta
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(New York Post) - A Queens, N.Y., man was sentenced Thursday to 15-years-to-life for killing his wife by stabbing her more than 250 times and then allegedly eating her lungs and drinking her blood, all in front of their four-year-old daughter.
Mohammad Solaiman, who had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, was sentenced Thursday for the gruesome murder of his wife Shahida Sultanna in their Jamaica, Queens, N.Y. home in December 2007.
Their 4-year-old daughter was in the next room at the time of the incident and witnessed the bloody aftermath.
Sultanna's sister, Ferdousi Begum, shuddered and bawled in court Thursday as she begged Solaiman to explain why he killed his wife.
"He took out her liver and her lungs and he ate it," Begum wailed. "He drank her blood. Her daughter told me that."
Solaiman's lawyer John Scarpa "categorically" denied the allegation that Solaiman feasted on his wife's remains.
"He may have killed his wife but he didn't turn into a cannibal," Scarpa said.
He went on to say that Solaiman suffered years of physical abuse at the hands of his wife.
"She was a very violent individual," Scarpa said. "She was not a saintly woman."
Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter shot back, "Are you saying she deserved what she got?"
"It was a violent outburst under extreme emotional disturbance," Scarpa replied.
Buchter noted that the file on Solaiman, who never said why he killed his wife, contained no evidence the killer was abused at home.
"We do know the defendant stabbed the victim in her face, in her neck, in her torso, in her back and also in her pubic region," Buchter said.
"His final act of savagery was to expose his 4-year-old daughter to the horrific murder scene to view her mother’s mutilated remains," Buchter added.
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(New York Post) - A Queens, N.Y., man was sentenced Thursday to 15-years-to-life for killing his wife by stabbing her more than 250 times and then allegedly eating her lungs and drinking her blood, all in front of their four-year-old daughter.
Mohammad Solaiman, who had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, was sentenced Thursday for the gruesome murder of his wife Shahida Sultanna in their Jamaica, Queens, N.Y. home in December 2007.
Their 4-year-old daughter was in the next room at the time of the incident and witnessed the bloody aftermath.
Sultanna's sister, Ferdousi Begum, shuddered and bawled in court Thursday as she begged Solaiman to explain why he killed his wife.
"He took out her liver and her lungs and he ate it," Begum wailed. "He drank her blood. Her daughter told me that."
Solaiman's lawyer John Scarpa "categorically" denied the allegation that Solaiman feasted on his wife's remains.
"He may have killed his wife but he didn't turn into a cannibal," Scarpa said.
He went on to say that Solaiman suffered years of physical abuse at the hands of his wife.
"She was a very violent individual," Scarpa said. "She was not a saintly woman."
Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter shot back, "Are you saying she deserved what she got?"
"It was a violent outburst under extreme emotional disturbance," Scarpa replied.
Buchter noted that the file on Solaiman, who never said why he killed his wife, contained no evidence the killer was abused at home.
"We do know the defendant stabbed the victim in her face, in her neck, in her torso, in her back and also in her pubic region," Buchter said.
"His final act of savagery was to expose his 4-year-old daughter to the horrific murder scene to view her mother’s mutilated remains," Buchter added.