Domestic violence daily reporting in Lebanon!

In the latest on domestic violence in Lebanon , the Directorate General of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) noted yesterday that the Syrian girl I’tidal (3 years) was subject to beating by her step mother, rejecting the latter’s account which claims that the girl has been beaten up by her 2-year-old brother! The ISF statement said, that the results of investigation by Junieh Judiciary Police Unit and the victim’s forensic examination have shown the girl suffered a severe blow to her head and had bruises all over her body, but that her overall health condition was intact. The father and his wife were arrested and the children handed over to their uncle as mandated by the competent judiciary. In another heartbreaking episode, the town of Barja in the Shuf was a scene to a horrific crime. In the news, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker repeatedly stabbed her employer in her final weeks of pregnancy using a knife.  The victim was rushed to hospital in serious condition. After committing her crime, however, the Ethiopian worker tried to throw herself from the balcony, but was stopped by the neighbors who handed her over to the security forces.  The alleged perpetrator later after cutting her wrist artery. In a related vein, the Criminal Court of Beirut set the sentencing hearing for July 4 in the case of killing of child Celene Rakan. The court is expected to clarify some incoherent facts which accompanied the case and conflicting accounts over the murder. The family accuses the migrant worker Bouzai with the murder, while the latter relentlessly denies it, and has repeated that when asked about her final request before closing the trial. (Al Mustaqbal, May 24, 2017)

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