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08-28-2008, 06:02 PM

Palestinian Basam Musalmeh, 38, stands behind a locked metal door leading to the room where he was locked up since he was a child, during a police raid in the West Bank village of Beit Awwa, near Hebron, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Police discovered a mentally disabled brother and sister in the rooms they were stashed away in for some forty years, during a raid in their southern West Bank town overnight Tuesday. The case has dramatically highlighted the shame thrown upon families who have children with disabilities in Palestinian society, made worse because of poor services and the practice of first-cousin marriages in Palestinian communities. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)AP - A Palestinian couple locked their disabled son and daughter away for decades out of fear they would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child if discovered, police said Wednesday.




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