Amandeep Dhillon met her demise at the hands of her father-in-law in beautiful Brampton, Canada. Brampton is part of the so-called Greater Toronto Area. Except for the maple trees, you might think, as you drive through Brampton, that you were in India, where the late Mrs Dhillon came from.
Why was the young mother so far from home? Here's the answer, from Michele Mandel's article "Killer of daughter-in-law hardly seems sorry", in the Toronto Sun.
"In 2005, her parents in Punjab paid an exorbitant dowry and sold her off in an arranged marriage to a Mississauga stranger with the expectation she’d bring them all to Canada.
It was an investment in a nightmare. The only joy in her life was her little boy, born here in 2007, but he was sent to live in India against her wishes. Isolated and with her every move monitored, her world shrunk to working with her controlling father-in-law in the family’s Indian grocery store — and it was there she died.
"In the courtroom, Amandeep remained as virtually alone in death as she was in life. There were two distant relatives and a pair of caring investigating officers, but no sign of her Malton husband or her parents, who remain in India caring for her three-year-old son.
"'He keeps asking for her,' said distant cousin Varinder Boparai. 'He doesn’t understand his mother is gone.'
"His poor mom kept quiet and sacrificed so much for her family’s Canadian dream. Undeterred, it seems her parents will still get their ticket here after all.
"Just seven months after Amandeep’s murder, her Punjabi family married off their younger daughter to a Brampton man in another arranged marriage. She’s about to have a child any day."
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