IT defies logic!

In Bristol, Virginia, the extreme nature of the child abuse case reported this week – a 6-year-old girl allegedly bound for weeks and frightened with toy snakes and spiders as punishment for taking food – seems to defy logic. It appears that family members bound a hungry child and frightened her intentionally, or allowed the abuse to continue, unabated, for the crime of being hungry. The perpetrators – her aunt, uncle and grandmother were arrested.

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Violence against children is never justifiable or acceptable. States are obligated to protect all children from all forms of violence. International human rights law is based on respect for every person’s human dignity. Children, as people, should receive no less protection than adults.-UNICEF