Early July, a post in a Facebook group called “We Are Bangladesh” with more than 700,000 members gave vivid details of how a couple on Dhaka’s Topkhana Road had brutally tortured their 12-year-old domestic worker.
The post had six photos showing the horrific injuries on the girl’s body.
I was shocked by the photos, especially one of the couple at the police station. I had known them for over a decade.
I had done several treks in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region with the man. Not only had I been at the couple’s wedding, I had thrown a bachelor party for the man at my home the night before. He was a graduate of the Institute of Business Administration, the most prestigious business school in Bangladesh, and had a flashy mid-level job in a large conglomerate.
His wife, a lawyer, was three months pregnant when police arrested her. The couple already had ten-month-old twins. They were a picture-perfect family. I couldn’t fathom how they could torture a child…
