Beverly Parents Accused Of Abusing Daughter May Get Bail

BEVERLY, MA — Salem District Court Judge Salim Tabit is expected to rule by the end of the week on an appeal by a Beverly couple who are being held without bail after being accused of beating and strangling their 14-year-old daughter.

The Salem News reported that lawyers for Hadi S. Jabbar, 46, and Ruqaya Al Jumaili, 40, had requested that bail be set —a request that Tabit signaled he was more likely to consider now that the couple's children are in the care of the Massachusetts Department of and Families.Tabit had originally ordered the couple, who fled to the U.S. from Iraq 4.5 years ago, be held without bail.

Las month the couple were arrested and charged with two counts of domestic assault and battery, witness intimidation, threats and strangulation after officials at the girl's school called police. The girl told police her father dragged her to a balcony and threatened to throw her off. He then dragged her back into the home and punched her repeatedly while her mother held her down by the throat. The father also pressed his thumbs into her eye sockets and ripped hair from her head.