Reem Magdy won a bronze medal at the Cadet World Championships (Photo/Alireza Akbari)The father of Reem Magdy, 16-year-old medal-winning women's freestyle wrestler for Egypt, is being held for allegedly beating his daughter which led to her death.
Magdy Kaboria, former gold medalist in the African, Mediterranean and World Championships, is under investigation for the death of his daughter, who died last Friday in her native Egypt.
Media reports earlier this week mistakenly stated that Reem Magdy had been struck and killed while trying to cross the Cairo-Ismailia Road in a hit-and-run accident about a dozen miles outside Ismailia.
Reem Magdy's mother told Ismailia prosecutors that her husband had chided their daughter for neglecting her wrestling training and spending too much time on Facebook. An argument took place between Magdy and Kaboria during training, which escalated into a beating. Later that day, another argument occurred while both were in a car; Kaboria allegedly began beating his daughter again because she wasn't focused during training. He slapped her on her face, which made her jump out of the moving car, resulting in her death.
Magdy's uncle confirmed that his brother did not disclose the details of his daughter's exit from the car for fear of tarnishing his image before the public. Kaboria didn't want to be jailed and he was worried about the family's future, the Al Arabiya English news agency reported Wednesday.
"The victim's mother and sister acknowledged what the investigations have concluded, contradicting the claims of her father that her death was the result of a road accident. The father also eventually confessed to what he did," according to a statement from Egypt's interior ministry posted at the Ahram English news website.
On Tuesday prosecutors ordered that the young wrestler's body to be dug out for a forensic autopsy. She had been buried after her funeral over the weekend.
Magdy won the bronze medal in the Cadet Wrestling World Championships held in Georgia in September and the gold medal in the Africa championship for junior wrestlers in Algeria in July.
Magdy was the daughter of Magdy Kaboria, former gold medal-winning wrestler in the African, Mediterranean and World Championships in 1959, who started coaching his daughter when she was only four years old.
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