Father locks girl in bathroom for nine years

A Palestinian woman was imprisoned for nine years in a bathroom by her father, beaten, barely fed and only let out at night, police said.

She was given only a blanket, a radio, and a razor blade by her father, who encouraged her to kill herself, said the social worker, Hala Shreim.

Palestinian police freed Baraa Melhem on Saturday in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, after a relative told authorities of the woman’s plight, said spokesman Adnan Damiri.