Tensions in Saudi Arabia are rising after a preacher reportedly beat, burned and raped his five-year-old daughter. The young girl was said to have been beaten numerous times with her father’s cane and burned with electrical cords.

Her father is attempting to hide his crime behind his supposed connection with God. Many women and children activists are outraged that this man has, thus far, been able to conceal this horrendous crime behind his powerful title. The five-year-old’s mother is even more upset that her ex-husband was able to get off the murder and abuse charges because he paid blood money for the crime. Blood money is the compensation to the family of the deceased. The mother says that because of his powerful position in the church, this preacher only had to pay a simple fin for the pain he caused her when he killed their daughter, he did not have to face a criminal punishment.

Now as the fight for rights of women and children begins a new crusade to become part of Saudi Arabian culture, the mother of this five-year-old little girl is standing on the front line. She is demanding that her ex-husband should be jailed for this crime and that his title as a priest should not be able to protect him from the justice system.

The young girl’s mother told CNN, “My dear child is dead, and all I want now is justice so I can close my eyes and know she didn’t die in vain.”

Many reports state that the little girl was hospitalized last March after the abuse and she remained hospitalized and in a coma until died from her injuries in late October, 2012.

Women’s rights are extremely common in the United States, and the citizens who live under the protection of the American laws take these natural rights for granted while women in other countries are still fighting to achieve the same protection, or any protection at all.