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Shamsiddin Abdur Raheem

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Galloway Man Who Murdered Three-Month Old Baby Sentenced to Life in Prison

Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem was found guilty of the 2010 crime in September.

A Galloway man found guilty of murdering his three-month old baby by throwing her into the Raritan River in 2010 was sentenced to life in prison, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, 24, was also sentenced to 30 years in prison, to be served consecutively, for kidnapping, Chiesa said. As a result, Abdur-Raheem must serve 89 years without the possibility of parole. He was found guilty of throwing his baby, Zara, off a Garden State Parkway bridge into the river on Sept. 7, following a two-week trial in New Brunswick. Abdur-Raheem was found guilty of murder, kidnapping and endangering the welfare of a child. He was also found guilty of two counts of simple assault, after attacking the …

bob

2:32 pm on Sunday, January 6, 2013

Keep him in prison. Death is too e.z. too good for him. Let him do Hard Time in prison. About the death penalty; I always ask... "Would you rather be dead or be doing life in prison, rotting away?" and the death penalty isn't always cheaper... the court process can take years and money   more ›

Friday, September 7, 2012

UPDATE: Galloway Man Found Guilty of Murder After Throwing Daughter Off Bridge

Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem has been found guilty following nearly a week of jury deliberations.

GALLOWAY, NJ — A New Jersey man accused of murder by throwing his three-month old daughter off a bridge on the Garden State Parkway has been found guilty of murder, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced Friday afternoon. Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, 24, of Galloway, had been accused of murder by throwing his daughter, Zara Malani-Lin Abdur Raheem, out of the passenger side of his Dodge Caravan off the Alfred E. Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State Parkway in Woodbridge Township 140 feet in the Raritan River on Feb. 16, 2010. The van was parked on the shoulder of the Parkway when he threw her out the window, Chiesa said. He was found guilty by a Middlesex County jury following a two-week trial and four days of deliberation. Vanetta …

Joe R

10:13 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2012

We live in a country that believes in laws and that assumes that a suspect is innocent until proven guilty. We do not believe in a crazed blood-thirsty lynch mob ready to string up someone without a trial. We go through this nonsense every time some horrible act of criminality occurs; people in the comments section screaming for blood, mob rule and vigilante "justice." Even the worst criminal …   more ›

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