[The News (Pak)] A minor maid was tortured to death by her employers on Tuesday for setting birds free while cleaning the cages.
According to reports, the eight-year-old, who hailed from Muzaffargarh, was hired to look after the child of a man identified as Hassan Siddiqui who worked in buying and selling birds and property.
Police officials told The Independent, Siddiqui confessed that he and his wife beat up the girl, who was working for them as a maid, in a fit of rage.
"[The] maid was cleaning the cage when she inadvertently let the two parrots free," a spokesperson said. "Hassan and his wife got infuriated and brutally beat the maid."
The publication further said the girl was brought to a private hospital on May 31 in an unconscious state and was kept on a ventilator in the ICU but died the next day.
Siddiqui, who had brought the girl to the hospital, had disappeared. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
he was later arrested along with his wife, according to a police report.
The hospital in its medical report said the minor had, "torture marks on her cheek, ribs and thighs." Her body bore older bruises that had still not fully healed. The report also added that she had injury marks in areas suggesting possible rape. 
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