Mother convicted of shaving daughter (2)

(ANSA) - Bologna, December 13 - A Bangladeshi woman was sentence to eight months in jail by a Bologa court Wednesday for shaving her 14-year-old daughter's head after she refused to wear the Muslim veil, judicial sources said.
    The father, who was not present during the crime in March, was acquitted.
    Earlier this year a court ruled the girl should stay in a shelter for children.
    Judges said further investigations had proved the family's hostility and so their appeal was rejected.
    The girl was taken away from her parents in Bologna at the end of March.
    The girl, who was born in Bangladesh but has been in Italy for years and is studying at a middle school in the Emilian capital, has been put into the care of the local social services along with her sisters.
    The girl said she was irked by the veil which she habitually wore at home but was starting to take off outside.
    Her mother got wind of this and decided to punish her by shaving her head.