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Conflict Incident Report

Lebanon police arrest Syrian for dumping her newborn in trash bin in 2016

Date of incident: 
April 19, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Police managed to arrest a Syrian woman a year after she abandoned her baby girl in a dumpster in Dora, north of Beirut, the Internal Security Forces said Wednesday.

The 35-year-old mother had delivered her baby in 2016 at a hospital in the northern city of Tripoli. The suspect allegedly discarded of her newborn the same night by dumping her in a trash bin.

The mother, identified by her initials S.H., admitted to the charges, saying that her child had been conceived from a non-marital affair.

She confessed that her 60-year-old mother, F.M., and 31-year-old sister M.H., had helped to dispose of her baby.

They were both arrested.

The baby has been missing without a trace since 2016.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.