Post by szaman1 on Feb 16, 2012 12:54:45 GMT -5
On the Tuesday before Easter, 2011, my husband and I were getting ready for work when we received a phone call from my husband's brother. Their mother had been assaulted and stabbed in a home invasion robbery in the family home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was in the hospital, and my husband scrambled to get a flight from San Diego, California to Dhaka. My husband's brother arrived from Sydney, Australia the same day my husband arrived from San Diego. Everyone was praying and we all believed she would be OK. We began getting reports that a maid from her home and two guards from the apartment complex had targeted her, believing she had money in the home. One guard and the maid were arrested, but the guard that stabbed her had not been caught.
My mother-in-law passed away on Easter Sunday, 2011. She had been stabbed in the chest, stomach, legs and arms, but she was still strong enough to fight and the blood pattern showed that she had fought hard and tried to get away.
My husband and the entire family have been devastated, not only for the loss of his vibrant, kind mother, but because the Bangladeshi police know who killed her, yet a year later he has still not been arrested.
The killer even called the home at one point to threaten my husband's family to stop pushing the police. He has also called neighbors asking for money and making threats.
My husband is a very private person and has kept all this inside, but he is struggling and he needs help. I'm so very sad she will not know her grandchildren. She wanted a little grandbaby girl so badly, and we wanted that for her. We had imagined that having a baby would be the catalyst to get his parents to move to the US, and a safer environment.
Does anyone know what to do when this type of thing happens so far away to make police respond? Does anyone have any ideas about how to help my husband with all the anger and pain?
We will be having our first child through adoption in April. I think that his Mom not being here is really churning everything up for him. For me as well.
My mother-in-law passed away on Easter Sunday, 2011. She had been stabbed in the chest, stomach, legs and arms, but she was still strong enough to fight and the blood pattern showed that she had fought hard and tried to get away.
My husband and the entire family have been devastated, not only for the loss of his vibrant, kind mother, but because the Bangladeshi police know who killed her, yet a year later he has still not been arrested.
The killer even called the home at one point to threaten my husband's family to stop pushing the police. He has also called neighbors asking for money and making threats.
My husband is a very private person and has kept all this inside, but he is struggling and he needs help. I'm so very sad she will not know her grandchildren. She wanted a little grandbaby girl so badly, and we wanted that for her. We had imagined that having a baby would be the catalyst to get his parents to move to the US, and a safer environment.
Does anyone know what to do when this type of thing happens so far away to make police respond? Does anyone have any ideas about how to help my husband with all the anger and pain?
We will be having our first child through adoption in April. I think that his Mom not being here is really churning everything up for him. For me as well.