Friday, November 11, 2005

Violence against children

In the past three years parents have abused 20 small children to death in Norway, and now police want legal changes.

According to the magazine Police Forum, seven children a year die in Norway because their parents mistreat them. Child welfare authorities must be notified when an abused child arrives at a medical center - police are not warned automatically
One case involved a father who beat his five-month-old daughter to death because she wouldn't stop crying. She suffered several fractures of the skull, fractures in six ribs, her leg was broken in two places and hemorrhaging in both eye.
Link in Norwegian

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