Father Kills Son, 4, With Hemophilia Because His Medical Treatment Was A Financial Burden

A man in India was arrested after he admitted to strangling his 4-year-old son to death because he could not afford the child's treatment for hemophilia.

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Mohammed Tariq, from Rudrapur, a city in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, admitted to killing his son and leaving the child's body near a canal in Bareilly, a district in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh, The Times of India reported.

The murder came to light after cops began investigating a missing person's complaint filed by Tariq on Tuesday. The man claimed he had taken his son on a bike ride and dropped him back in front of their house before heading to his paternal home in Bareilly, and that he realized the child was missing only when he returned home.

However, the investigation uncovered inconsistencies in the father's version of events. CCTV footage showed Tariq leaving with his son and returning home without him.

Cops also recovered the child's body from the bushes near a canal in the town Tariq had visited, and he was taken into custody. When interrogated, the man caved in and confessed to the crime.

Tariq said he spent a lot of money on the boy's treatment for hemophilia since his birth and was disappointed as nothing seemed to work. When he took the child to see the doctor Monday, he was reportedly asked to get his son admitted to a hospital in Delhi, the national capital located about 160 miles from his hometown.

"The man owns a truck and drives it. However, for some time, he wasn’t getting any work and was not able to pay the EMI of the vehicle. His son Shaban, the youngest of the two, was suffering from hemophilia since birth, which increased the financial burden on him," senior investigating officer Mamta Vohra said, as reported by The Indian Express.

Tariq also admitted that he did not try to avail any financial support from the government for his son's treatment.

Investigation revealed the father attempted to throw the child's body in the canal but it got caught in the bushes instead.