Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 16, Issue 7 , Pages 388-391 , October 2009

Child deaths from family violence in Dakahlia and Damiatta Governorates, Egypt

  • Seham A. Gad El-Hak, MD (Professor)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt
    • ,
  • Mahmoud A.M. Ali, Master degree (Chief/Director general)

      Affiliations

    • Mansoura Forensic Medicine Institute, Egypt
    • ,
  • Hend M.H. Abo El-Atta, Master degree (Assistant lecturer)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 4 December 2008 ,Revised 19 February 2009 ,Accepted 2 April 2009.

References 

  1. Colomer-Revuelta C, Colomer-Revuelta J, Mercer R, Peiro-Perez R, Rajmil L. Child health. Gac Sanit. 2004;18:39–46
  2. Friedlaender EY, Rubin DM, Alpern ER, Mandell DS, Christian CW, Alessandrini EA. Patterns of health care use that may identify young children who are at risk for maltreatment. Pediatrics. 2005;116:1303–1308
  3. Foshee VA, Ennett ST, Bauman KE, Benefield T, Suchindran C. The association between family violence and adolescent dating violence onset. J Early Adolescence. 2005;25:317–344
  4. Christoffel KK. Violent death and injury in US children and adolescents. Am J Dis Child. 1990;144:697–706
  5. Vanamo T, Kauppi A, Karkola K, Merikanto J, Rasanen E. Intra-familial child homicide in Finland 1970–1994: incidence, causes of death and demographic characteristics. Forensic Sci Int. 2001;117(3):199–204
  6. Mirabal B, Rodríguez I, Vélez CN, Crosby A, Hoffman J. Homicides among children and young adults – Puerto Rico, 1999–2003. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. 2006;55:361–364
  7. Karakus M, Ince H, Ince N, Rican N, Sozen S. Filicide cases in Turkey, 1995–2000. Croat Med J. 2003;44:592–595
  8. Guterman NB, Lee Y. The role of fathers in risk for physical child abuse and neglect: possible pathways and unanswered questions. Child Maltreatment. 2005;10:136–149
  9. Nayda R, Pridham L. Australian physiotherapists and mandatory notification of child abuse: legislation and practice. Aust J Physiother. 2004;50:103–107
  10. Jenny C, Isaac R. The relation between child death and child maltreatment. Arch Dis Child. 2006;91:265–269
  11. Haj-Yahia MM, Shor R. Child maltreatment as perceived by Arab students of social science in the West Bank. Child Abuse Neglect. 1995;19:1209–1219
  12. Zilberman ML, Blume SB. Domestic violence, alcohol and substance abuse. Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 2005;27:51–55
  13. El-Defrawi MH, Atef A, Ragab L, Sobhy SA. Parent–child interactions and child abuse in rural and urban population samples in Ismailia, Port-Said and Suez Governorates. Egypt J Psychiat. 1997;20:283–296
  14. Bourget D, Gagné P. Paternal filicide in Québec. J Am Acad Psych Law. 2005;33:354–360
  15. Farooque R, Ernst FA. Filicide: a review of eight years of clinical experience. J Natl Med Assoc. 2003;95:90–94
  16. Schnitzer PG, Ewigman BG. Child deaths resulting from inflicted injuries: household risk factors and perpetrator characteristics. Pediatrics. 2005;116:687–693
  17. Friedman SH, Hrouda DR, Holden CE, Noffsinger SG, Resnick PJ. Filicide–suicide: common factors in parents who kill their children and themselves. J Am Acad Psych Law. 2005;33:496–504
  18. Kaplun D, Reich R. The murdered child and his killers. Am J Psych. 1976;133:809–813
  19. Bourget D, Bradford JM. Homicidal parents. Can J Psych. 1990;35:233–238
  20. Somander LK, Rammer LM. Intra- and extra-familial child homicide in Sweden 1971–1980. Child Abuse Neglect. 1991;15:45–55
  21. Overpeck MD, Brenner RA, Trumble AC, Trifiletti LB, Berendes HW. Risk factors for infant homicide in the United States. New Engl J Med. 1998;339:1211–1216
  22. Logan TK, Walker R, Leukefeld CG. Rural, urban influenced, and urban differences among domestic violence arrestees. J Interpers Violence. 2001;16:266–283
  23. Stiffman MN, Schnitzer PG, Adam P, Kruse RL, Ewigman BG. Household composition and risk of fatal child maltreatment. Pediatrics. 2002;109:615–621
  24. Palazzi S, Girolamo G, Liverani T. Observational study of suspected maltreatment in Italian pediatric emergency departments. Arch Dis Child. 2005;90:406–410
  25. Atta HY, Youssef RM. Child abuse and neglect: mothers’ behaviour and perceptions. La Reuvue de Santé de la Méditerranée orientale. 1998;4:502–512
  26. Duhaime AC, Alario AJ, Lewander WJ. Head injury in very young children: mechanism, injury types, and ophthalmologic finding in 100 patients younger than 2 years of age. Pediatrics. 1992;90:179–185
  27. Friedman SH, Horwitz SM, Resnick PJ. Child murder by mothers: a critical analysis of the current state of knowledge and a research agenda. Am J Psych. 2005;162:1578–1587
  28. Hossny E, Mokhtar G, El-Awady M, Inas Ali I, Morsy M, Dawood A. Environmental exposure of the pediatric age groups in Cairo City and its suburbs to cadmium pollution. Sci Total Environ. 2001;273:135–146

PII: S1752-928X(09)00052-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2009.04.010

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 16, Issue 7 , Pages 388-391 , October 2009

Article Tools