1/4/18, "Tunisian immigrant kills two daughters following custody dispute in US," Al Arabiya English
"American mother Amy Hunter arrived at a parking lot near her home in West Sacramento on New Year’s Eve to pick up her daughters, Sara, 9 and Sophie, 12, only to find them dying beside the corpse of their father.
The car was parked at the designated drop-off point for the girls, near West Sacramento’s City Hall in the US.
The victims’ parents had been involved in a custody battle for years, reported Sacramento Bee.
The
two girls were later declared dead by West Sacramento Police in a
murder-suicide by their father, Hamdy Rouin, 46, a Tunisian immigrant
who was also found dead in the car.
The
mother described her ex-husband Rouin as an abusive man and heavy
drinker who had hit her, and threatened her to take the girls away to
Tunisia, according to sacbee.com.
The mother who converted to Islam, and other
family and friends from her Islamic religious community gathered on
Tuesday evening for a vigil where she lived with her little girls.
She
filed for divorce in December 2014 and it was finalized in December
2016. Rouin was allowed supervised visits once a week with his girls
after completing a court-ordered parenting class.
The
father gradually got access to the girls and was allowed unsupervised
visits as he was listed as having joint legal custody in a November 2016
document, while the mother retained sole physical custody."
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"Rouin told him, “I am the immigrant. I am the fresh-off-the boat guy. Nobody is going to listen to my story. My wife is white, so I’ve lost already.”"..."Both girls were active in Sacramento’s Muslim community, participating in activities such as the Muslim Girl Scouts."
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article192449509.html#storylink=cpy
1/2/18, "West Sacramento mom came to pick up her daughters. They never got out of her ex-husband’s car," sacbee.com, Stephen Magagnini, Cassie Dickman, Anita Chabria
"In court filings, Hunter described Rouin as an abusive husband and heavy drinker who had hit her, threatened to throw the cat out the car window and told her he would take the girls away to Tunisia. Rouin was scheduled to appear Tuesday morning in Yolo Superior Court for violating a protective order, court records show.
Jenkins said Hunter is in a state of shock, but is being supported by her mother, who flew in from Las Vegas, and other family and friends from her Islamic religious community. About 100 people gathered Tuesday evening for a vigil in front of the Casa Mobile Park, where Hunter lived with her daughters....
Leaders of the Muslim community Tuesday mourned the loss of the girls and struggled to understand why Rouin would have killed them.
Imam M.A. Azeez of Tarbiya Institute mosque spoke at the vigil Tuesday evening. He said it took him half an hour to summon the strength to tell his daughter two of her best friends were dead. Rouin was rarely seen at Tarbiya or the Salam mosques that his family attended, said Azeez and Metwalli Amer, founder and president of Salam. Azeez said he tried to mediate the couple’s protracted custody battle.
“I remember visibly his constant frustration that he is not understood,” Azeez said. He said Rouin told him, “I am the immigrant. I am the fresh-off-the boat guy. Nobody is going to listen to my story. My wife is white, so I’ve lost already.”" “I heard that many times,” Azeez said.
Rouin was deeply concerned with in the pro-democracy movements in Tunisia and Egypt, Azeez said. “He was extremely consumed with Tunisia and the revolution and its aftermath, and was always talking about Arab Spring.”
Rouin’s Facebook page lists no job. It features a photo of him smoking a cigarette in front of a No Smoking sign.
Hunter, his ex-wife, was very involved at Salam Academy, the full-time Islamic study center that her daughters attended before it closed last May, Amer said.
“She used to be a full-time teacher there, and also worked at our bookstore for a number of years,” Amer said. “She served on Salam Academy’s education board and helped with bake sales and fundraisers.” Amer said Rouin would show up, but Hunter kept him at a distance.
Hunter filed for divorce in December 2014, six months after she filed the first of several temporary restraining orders against Rouin. In a declaration filed with the court, Hunter described a constant stream of threats and verbal and sometimes physical abuse.
She said Rouin, whom she married in Las Vegas in 1999, worked a variety of part-time jobs, usually as a limo driver, but frequently missed work because of his heavy drinking.
“He always told me his drinking was my fault.....and that it was my fault he couldn’t get a job,” she said in her court declaration.
According to Hunter’s declaration, Rouin was arrested for being drunk and disorderly in Henderson, Nev., in 2009, soliciting a prostitute in West Sacramento in 2010, domestic violence while intoxicated in West Sacramento in 2014, and violating his temporary restraining order several times starting in 2014.
Rouin denied all of Hunter’s allegations of abuse, requested joint custody and alleged Hunter had made up the charges “to gain a tactical advantage in the custody and dissolution proceedings.”
Their divorce was finalized in December 2016.
As of July 2014, Rouin was allowed only supervised visits once a week with his children. But he completed a court-ordered parenting class and gradually had his access to the girls increased. As of 2016, he was allowed unsupervised visits.
Rouin was listed as having joint legal custody in a November 2016 document, while Hunter retained sole physical custody.
In August 2017, Rouin was arrested for violating a temporary restraining order and a criminal protective order based on a pending charge of domestic violence, as well as for contempt of court, according to court records. It was on that charge that he was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday."...
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1/1/2018, "‘Beautiful girls’: Muslim community mourns preteens slain on New Year’s Eve," sacbee.com, Tony Bizjak, Stephen Magagnini
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article192449509.html#storylink=cpy
"Both girls were active in Sacramento’s Muslim community, participating in activities such as the Muslim Girl Scouts."....
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article192449509.html#storylink=cpy
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"Rouin told him, “I am the immigrant. I am the fresh-off-the boat guy. Nobody is going to listen to my story. My wife is white, so I’ve lost already.”"..."Both girls were active in Sacramento’s Muslim community, participating in activities such as the Muslim Girl Scouts."
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article192449509.html#storylink=cpy
1/2/18, "West Sacramento mom came to pick up her daughters. They never got out of her ex-husband’s car," sacbee.com, Stephen Magagnini, Cassie Dickman, Anita Chabria
"In court filings, Hunter described Rouin as an abusive husband and heavy drinker who had hit her, threatened to throw the cat out the car window and told her he would take the girls away to Tunisia. Rouin was scheduled to appear Tuesday morning in Yolo Superior Court for violating a protective order, court records show.
Jenkins said Hunter is in a state of shock, but is being supported by her mother, who flew in from Las Vegas, and other family and friends from her Islamic religious community. About 100 people gathered Tuesday evening for a vigil in front of the Casa Mobile Park, where Hunter lived with her daughters....
Leaders of the Muslim community Tuesday mourned the loss of the girls and struggled to understand why Rouin would have killed them.
Imam M.A. Azeez of Tarbiya Institute mosque spoke at the vigil Tuesday evening. He said it took him half an hour to summon the strength to tell his daughter two of her best friends were dead. Rouin was rarely seen at Tarbiya or the Salam mosques that his family attended, said Azeez and Metwalli Amer, founder and president of Salam. Azeez said he tried to mediate the couple’s protracted custody battle.
“I remember visibly his constant frustration that he is not understood,” Azeez said. He said Rouin told him, “I am the immigrant. I am the fresh-off-the boat guy. Nobody is going to listen to my story. My wife is white, so I’ve lost already.”" “I heard that many times,” Azeez said.
Rouin was deeply concerned with in the pro-democracy movements in Tunisia and Egypt, Azeez said. “He was extremely consumed with Tunisia and the revolution and its aftermath, and was always talking about Arab Spring.”
Rouin’s Facebook page lists no job. It features a photo of him smoking a cigarette in front of a No Smoking sign.
Hunter, his ex-wife, was very involved at Salam Academy, the full-time Islamic study center that her daughters attended before it closed last May, Amer said.
“She used to be a full-time teacher there, and also worked at our bookstore for a number of years,” Amer said. “She served on Salam Academy’s education board and helped with bake sales and fundraisers.” Amer said Rouin would show up, but Hunter kept him at a distance.
Hunter filed for divorce in December 2014, six months after she filed the first of several temporary restraining orders against Rouin. In a declaration filed with the court, Hunter described a constant stream of threats and verbal and sometimes physical abuse.
She said Rouin, whom she married in Las Vegas in 1999, worked a variety of part-time jobs, usually as a limo driver, but frequently missed work because of his heavy drinking.
“He always told me his drinking was my fault.....and that it was my fault he couldn’t get a job,” she said in her court declaration.
According to Hunter’s declaration, Rouin was arrested for being drunk and disorderly in Henderson, Nev., in 2009, soliciting a prostitute in West Sacramento in 2010, domestic violence while intoxicated in West Sacramento in 2014, and violating his temporary restraining order several times starting in 2014.
Rouin denied all of Hunter’s allegations of abuse, requested joint custody and alleged Hunter had made up the charges “to gain a tactical advantage in the custody and dissolution proceedings.”
Their divorce was finalized in December 2016.
As of July 2014, Rouin was allowed only supervised visits once a week with his children. But he completed a court-ordered parenting class and gradually had his access to the girls increased. As of 2016, he was allowed unsupervised visits.
Rouin was listed as having joint legal custody in a November 2016 document, while Hunter retained sole physical custody.
In August 2017, Rouin was arrested for violating a temporary restraining order and a criminal protective order based on a pending charge of domestic violence, as well as for contempt of court, according to court records. It was on that charge that he was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday."...
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1/1/2018, "‘Beautiful girls’: Muslim community mourns preteens slain on New Year’s Eve," sacbee.com, Tony Bizjak, Stephen Magagnini
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article192449509.html#storylink=cpy
"Both girls were active in Sacramento’s Muslim community, participating in activities such as the Muslim Girl Scouts."....
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article192449509.html#storylink=cpy
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