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Conflict Incident Report

Parents killed their 3 years old daughter

Date of incident: 
May 22, 2017
Death toll: 
1 person
Number of Injured: 
0persons

Police arrested a couple for beating their three-year-old daughter to death, a judicial source told The Daily Star.

The source said that Judge Dani Chrabieh issued the arrest warrants on charges of death of the child.

The couple were not identified.

The girl was admitted to St.Louis hospital in Jounieh's Haret Sakhr, north of Beirut, on Saturday.

The three-year-old later succumbed to her wounds.

“Neighbors of the family told security forces that they often heard the child cry,” the source said.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Murder
Secondary Category: 
Cruel Treatment and Torture
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.