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The case will return to Dubbo Local Court on October 23. (Sydney Morning Herald)<\/p>\nA woman allegedly beaten against a concrete wall by her mother for not marrying her first cousin will never set foot in the family home again, a court has been told.<\/p>\n
Enam Hmeed, 45, and her husband Mohamed Al-Fadhli were arrested in April after police allegedly discovered their daughter Rhonda in their convenience store in western NSW with a metal chain padlocked around her neck.<\/p>\n
Police allege Hmeed and Al-Fadhli assaulted their 21-year-old daughter on separate occasions after finding out she was still in contact with her boyfriend, who had asked the parents for permission to marry her.<\/p>\n
The case will return to Dubbo Local Court on October 23. (Sydney Morning Herald)<\/p>\n
The marriage proposal had been refused because the father wanted his eldest daughter to marry his brother’s son – the woman’s first cousin – in an arranged marriage, police say.<\/p>\n
After discovering Rhonda on the phone with her boyfriend, Hmeed allegedly grabbed her daughter by the hair and hit her head against a concrete wall multiple times.<\/p>\n
The mother is also accused of biting her daughter and attacking her with a garden hose.<\/p>\n
Al-Fadhli allegedly travelled nearly 400km back to the family’s shop in Dubbo from Sydney Airport after hearing from his wife about the secret phone call.<\/p>\n
The father is accused of locking a silver chain around his daughter before repeatedly attacking her with the hose.<\/p>\n
Rhonda was able to contact both police and her boyfriend with a hidden phone and alert them to her condition on two separate occasions on April 20.<\/p>\n
The parents denied there were any problems initially before police, called a second time, found Rhonda with a locked chain around her neck, Supreme Court Justice Robertson Wright said.<\/p>\n
The judge made the comments as he agreed to vary Hmeed’s bail conditions yesterday.<\/p>\n
The change allows the mother to return to her family home in the Sydney suburb of Yagoona after Rhonda said she would never visit the house.<\/p>\n
Hmeed had been living with a friend since being bailed in June.<\/p>\n
The case will return to Dubbo Local Court on October 23.<\/p>\n
Hmeed is facing one charge of detaining in company and a charge of domestic violence assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n
No pleas have been entered by the parents but lawyers yesterday suggested a contested hearing was on the cards.<\/p>\n
Australian law bans marriage between siblings or to a descendant, such as a grandchild, but cousins are permitted to marry if both parties are freely entering the wedlock.\ufeff<\/p>\n