Murder in Mecca

From the extremely pro-Saudi Arab News:

Sources told Arab News that after stabbing his daughter and realizing that she might have died, he and his wife washed her blood with Clorox and took her to the hospital where he told the emergency personnel that he doesn’t know what is wrong with her.

When they examined her, they found she was already dead and that she had suffered multiple fractions and stabs. When they asked him, he said that she used to hurt herself. The hospital immediately called the police who came and arrested him and his wife.

This could have happened in any city in America. But then you read this:

Family members close to the girl’s biological mother say that the mother and the father divorced a long time ago after she suffered physical abuse at his hands. She kept custody of the girl in accordance with Islamic law until the girl turned seven. The father then began demanding custody of the girl, especially after his ex-wife had remarried. The father won custody last year. The mother appealed the court’s decision but was denied custody. She was given visitation rights, but the father generally prevented the mother from the court-ordered visitations with impunity.

And this:

In the case of the nine-year-old victim in Makkah, it remains to be seen if the girl will get justice posthumously.

According to Islamic law, a father who kills his child is not eligible for the death penalty, but exemptions are made by the state in particularly egregious cases.

Emphasis mine. These ar people who hack off a hand of a thief but will not give the death penalty to a father who murders his child? I wonder why that is.