SHOCKING details have emerged of an alleged child abuse case in Adelaide. Five-year-old twin boys, found among 21 children living in squalor were so weak and malnourished they could not even sit up by themselves.
One of the twins had a head injury allegedly caused by an assault and was suffering from hypothermia, while the other had septicemia. Their three siblings were described as "very thin", withdrawn, having a limited ability to walk and suffering from pain.
Three men and three women, aged between 26 and 40, pleaded not guilty in court to charges relating to the five children.
For more details please read: Horrific South Australian child abuse in http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
Almost 53,000 children are estimated to have died worldwide in 2002 as a result of homicide. In some industrialized countries, infants under one year face about three times the risk of homicide, almost invariably at the hands of parents, than children aged 1 to 4, and twice the risk of those aged 5 to 14.
- World Report on Violence against Children
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