An Egyptian schoolteacher hacked his three children to death "as martyrs" to spite his bossy wife for years of humiliation and abuse, a government-owned newspaper reported on Friday. "My wife is to blame for everything. She took over everything: our seven-storey building, car, the money in the bank, the product of 12 years working abroad," the paper quoted the man's confession as saying. "She considered us, our children and me, as private property," it added. "She always had the last word, up to the point where she ordered me to spend the night in the park near the house. I ended up hating her, but I adored my children, before whom I felt I was no longer a man. "Therefore I decided to sacrifice them as martyrs to break my wife's heart," the newspaper quoted the man as saying.