Unborn baby killer and Alameddine crime clan member Ahmed Karim jailed for stomping on pregnant partner
A young woman whose unborn baby was killed when her gangster husband stomped on her stomach says “no amount of jail time is going to be justice” for the lifelong scars she now carries.
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A young woman whose unborn baby was killed when her gangster husband stomped on her stomach says “no amount of jail time is going to be justice” for the lifelong scars she now carries.
Leticia Chalmers was 20 weeks pregnant when Alameddine crime clan member Ahmed Karim invited her to his home, just hours before a gender reveal party for their baby – a baby he had no intention of ever coming into the world.
It was September 2021 and in the weeks before he had told his 19-year-old partner via text to: “Get f--kin rid of it”.
When they met up face-to-face ahead of the gender reveal and Leticia again refused to have an abortion, Karim snapped – jumping on her stomach and yelling “I want you and the baby to die”.
Karim will now be behind bars until at least November 4, 2029, after Justice Stephen Hanley handed him a minimum eight-year sentence on Monday in the NSW District Court, for what he described as the “horrific”, “horrendous” and “completely abhorrent” attack on Leticia.
“The offender’s behaviour was misogynistic and controlling. He refused to respect the victim’s wishes and desire to have the child,” Judge Hanley told the court.
“From the time he found out the victim was pregnant he embarked on a course to terminate the pregnancy, by any means. Each offence, I accept, is a very serious domestic violence one.”
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph after the sentencing on Monday, Leticia said while she hoped Karim would receive a longer jail term she is relieved the court matters are now done.
“No amount of time is going to be justice for what we lost, so we will be discussing it further with the Crown about what we can possibly do to get more of a sentence,” she said.
“To be honest, given what he took from me, I feel like the sentence is actually ridiculous. All I can say is I’m happy he’s behind bars now.”
What Karim did that Friday night was outlined in shocking detail in court documents, which were read out by Judge Hanley.
Karim stomped on her stomach, using “alternate feet and stepping downwards with his full force”, according to a statement of agreed facts.
He dug his knee into her stomach and “pressed down with all his weight”, before choking her unconscious on the kitchen floor – only to then pour water over her in an effort to wake her up, just so he could continue on with the attack.
Judge Henley ruled Karim’s offending was at the “highest end of objective seriousness”.
“It was a vicious and frenzied attack in which she (Leticia) feared for her life … I am satisfied that these offences … will have a lifelong impact (on her),” he said.
Leticia’s mother Christie remembers receiving the panicked texts on the night of the attack.
After seeing messages from Leticia pop up saying, “Mum come now please, Ahmed just tried to kill me. I think he killed the baby”, she rushed to Karim’s home.
There she found her bloodied daughter lying on the front lawn, with a “deflated” stomach.
“Leticia hasn’t moved on, like she said in her victim impact statement, she’s a shell of her former self,” Christie told The Daily Telegraph.
Judge Henley told the court how Karim blamed watching his close mate Shady Kanj be shot dead in front of him in Sydney’s underworld war a month earlier in August 2021, as a reason for his offending.
“I do not accept that,” Judge Hanley said.
Instead he said Karim had a long history of violence.
The court heard Karim had several addictions – one to gambling and playing the pokies, and another to drugs, particularly cocaine.
He had developed the latter while dealing drugs on behalf of the Alameddine crime network, as part of the R4W (Ready 4 War) syndicate.
It was while delivering drugs together that fellow Alameddine associate Kanj was gunned down, at the hands of rival Hamzy crime clan member Salim Hamze – who was himself killed two months later, in October 2021.
Karim was concurrently sentenced for supplying a prohibited drug on an ongoing basis on Monday, in addition to the charges of commit grievous bodily harm and sexual intercourse without consent for the attack on Leticia.
“His behaviour needs to be denounced, it is completely abhorrent,” Judge Hanley said.
“Particularly in relation to his offences against Ms Chalmers, it is horrific. It is important the impact upon her be acknowledged on behalf of the community.”
Karim was sentenced to a minimum non-parole period of eight years, with a maximum sentence of 12 years.
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