Man Loses Daughter In Card Game

by September 21, 2009 1990 Views

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A man from West Bengal in eastern India has drawn international ire for adding his teenage daughter to the pot in a card game.

After losing all of his money, Ismail Sheikh used his 18-year-old daughter as a final bet, and lost. His daughter was dragged out of the village buy the winner.

According to family members, Sheikh is a “compulsive gambler with a drinking problem”, he is also homeless, having been thrown out of the family home as a result of his inappropriate bet.

Following an investigation, his daughter was retrieved by police.

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by C. S. Magor - Sep 21, 2009

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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