10 Mar 2021
A father in the United Kingdom who allegedly made his daughter sign a life-long contract promising to never get fat is on trial for child cruelty and assault.
Rachid Khadla, 56, who denies the three counts of child cruelty and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm levelled against him, is alleged to have made daughter Amira sign a pledge reading, “I, Amira Khadla, will never let myself get fat. I will do lots of exercise to make sure I will never get fat, even until I die.”
Prosecutors allege Khadla hit his daughter with a spoon, punched her, and even threw a chair at her. Amira told the court that her “controlling” father decided what she could see, what she could wear, and what she could watch on TV.
Fat-shaming dad forced daughter to sign contract promising to never get overweight
Rachid Khadla is accused of ruling his family with terrifying discipline with daughter Amira claiming she was weighed almost daily by her fitness-fanatic father
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Rachid Khadla is accused of child cruelty and assault (Image: Vagner Vidal/Hyde News & Pictures Ltd)
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10:16 EDT, 11 March 2021
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The three children and wife of Rachid Khadla (pictured above), 56, stood in a witness box and testified to the controlling dictatorship that he forced them to live under
A dictator father who made his daughter sign a contract promising never to get fat only allowed his family two baths a week and forced them to sit in the dark as they watched TV, a court heard.
The three children and wife of Rachid Khadla, 56, from Windsor, Berkshire, stood in a witness box and testified to the controlling dictatorship that he forced them to live under.
The father, who is facing charges of child cruelty and assault, only let his family watch programmes he picked out and refused to let them watch advertisements for fear of indoctrination as they were forced to turn over to the BBC, a jury was told.
10:26 EDT, 10 March 2021
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Rachid Khadla, 56, from Windsor, Berkshire, denies three counts of child cruelty and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm
A fitness fanatic father, who made his daughter sign contract promising never to get fat, also beat son more than 100 times with wooden spoon before attempting to strangle him, a court has heard.
Rachid Khadla, 56, from Windsor, Berkshire, stood in the dock with his head bowed as his youngest son Hicham Khadla told horrific stories about his upbringing.
The aspiring police officer, now 18, told the jury that his father had condemned him as weak and said he was hit with a kitchen utensil more than 100 times as a child - starting when he was just seven years old.
15:13 EDT, 9 March 2021
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Father-of-three Rachid Khadla, 56, from Windsor, Berkshire, made his daughter sign a life-long contract promising to never get fat and weighed her almost daily, a jury heard today
A fitness fanatic father made his daughter sign a life-long contract promising to never get fat and weighed her almost daily, a jury heard today.
Father-of-three Rachid Khadla, 56, from Windsor, Berkshire, is facing charges of child cruelty and assault over his treatment of his now-adult daughter Amira and sons Hicham and Karim.
Amira, now 23, said her controlling father decided what she could wear, who she could see, who she could talk to and what she could watch on television.