Friday, April 13, 2012

Gender Selection-Child Abuse

The Hindu News reports:    
Ms. Reshma had said that her husband Umar Farook, who had wanted a boy child, had physically abused the child, and had attempted to kill her in the preceding days. When she was brought in she had suffered haemorrhages in her brain and retina, and had multiple bite marks on her thighs and cigarette burn marks on her body. Since Tuesday, Afreen, who was already on ventilator support, went into a semi-comatose state following two convulsions. Three-month-old Neha Afreen who had been battling for life since Friday after being allegedly battered by her father, died of cardiac arrest here on Wednesday. Doctors at the Vani Vilas Hospital said that around 10.40 a.m. she suffered a cardiac arrest and died 30 minutes later. Reshma Bano, the child's mother, vented her ire at Umar Farook, her husband, who is alleged to have assaulted the child. “My baby was innocent, and he killed her. He's a devil and should get the strictest punishment.”
During interrogation, Farook had confessed to the crime and multiple attacks on the child in the past three months, the police said.
Child abuse can be happening anywhere, in any town, in your town!
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

April is Child Abuse Awareness Month

Every voice should be heard, speak up if you know of a victim or are a victim of child abuse.
No child should live in fear or pain.