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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.
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