Okaz/ Saudi Gazette TAIF: The coroner here is expected to issue a final report on the cause of death of a young boy allegedly killed by his stepmother. Ahmad's body was found in an abandoned building last Wednesday following an eight-day search and was kept at King Faisal Hospital's morgue. Sources said the preliminary examination showed the body had head injuries. The Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution (BIP) is continuing its investigation into the case. The stepmother has been charged with murder. She allegedly confessed to hitting the boy to death with a stick. The woman and her Asian housemaid are behind bars at the women's section of the General Prison in Taif. She is 39 years old with a secondary school degree and a computer diploma, sources said. She has a girl from a previous marriage who is living with her former husband. She married Ahmad's father several years ago and gave birth to two children, Rose and Thamer. Ahmad, the deceased boy, has a sister Ritaj from his father's first marriage. Investigators summoned the suspect's neighbor, an Arab expatriate, who lived in the same 15-apartment residential building. This was to get information about the visit the suspect paid to her just after Ahmad was killed. It is believed the visit was an attempt to give her an alibi. The neighbor said she had no detailed information about the incident and explained that the suspect had visited her for the first time. Shortly after the suspect arrived at her house, her housemaid had called and said that Ahmad was missing, said the neighbor. Fuwad Omar Sadeq, a neighbor, said he also had some contact with the suspect. “On Tuesday morning I heard a knock on the door and when I opened there was a Saudi lady. I called my wife to meet her and went out to the grocery store. When I came back I found the woman on the stairs shouting ‘Ahmad is missing'. I asked my wife about it and she said the woman was the wife of our neighbor Al-Ghamdi and was visiting for the first time. She received a call from her maid, while she was in her neighbor's apartment, telling her Ahmad was missing.” Abdullah Muhammad, a neighbor who has been living in the building for the last 13 years, said he found the suspect sitting at the entrance of the building on Tuesday when he came from work. “She asked me to help her look for Ahmad and I formed a search team with young people from the area and some school pupils, but we couldn't find him.” __
