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Child maltreatment Cases Referred to Sohag’s Medico-legal Department, Ministry of Justice: Retrospective and Prospective Medico-legal Evaluation

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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• Child Abuse and Neglect

Abstract

Child maltreatment is a serious global problem in all socio-economic groups. This can lead to serious, long-lasting physical or \ and psychological damage that extend to adulthood. Aim of work: Evaluation of different medico-legal aspects of confirmed child maltreatment cases at Sohag's Medico-legal department of the Ministry of Justice; retrospectively and a prospectively with demographic description and comparative analysis between the 2 parts of the study. Methods: the study included confirmed cases child maltreatment at Sohag's Medico-legal department of the Ministry of Justice, retrospectively at the year 2011 (the year of 25th Egyptian Revolution) data collected from the reported files and prospectively at the year 2017 and data was collected during examination or autopsy of the confirmed analysis cases with of the perpetrators relation to the victims. Results: Retrospective part revealed 112 cases (81 living & 31 dead), male to female was 4:1. Physical maltreatment predominated (46.4%), followed by combined pattern (34.8%) then sexual abuse (14.3%). Autopsy of dead cases revealed hemorrhagic shock was the main cause of death (46.7%) followed by brain injury (23.3%), prospective analysis revealed 91 cases (51 living& 40 dead), male to female ratio was 3:1. Physical abuse predominant (45.1%) followed by equal percent of neglect and sexual abuse (25.3%). Autopsy revealed hemorrhage and asphyxia were the main causes of deaths (47.5 and 37.5% respectively). Extra-familial perpetrators (friend , neighbors , driver, teacher ) were the most reported ones in retrospective and prospective analysis with no sufficient data could be collected in about one third of the cases during 2011 and in more than one fourth of the cases during 2017 Conclusion: Forensic examination of child maltreatment cases at Sohag Governorate as one of the Upper Egypt governorates provided evidence on the magnitude of the problem in Upper Egypt. Comparison of the medico-legal aspects between the retrospective part in the revolution period and the prospective part of post revolution period revealed similar results of most studied aspects with little difference have been observed in the child maltreatment pattern that might be related to post revolution's social circumstances in Egypt.

DOI

10.21608/ejfsat.2021.43690.1172

Keywords

Child maltreatment, domestic violence,Medico-legal, perpetrators, emotional harm, Upper Egypt

Authors

First Name

Ghada

Last Name

Omran

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Affiliation

Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt

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ghada.omran@aun.edu.eg

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First Name

Sawan

Last Name

Elsharkawy

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Affiliation

Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department, Assiut faculty of Medicine, Assiut university, Assiut Egypt

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sawsanelsharkawy@yahoo.com

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First Name

Amr

Last Name

Abd Al-Karim

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Forensic Medicine Pathologist at Egyptian Forensic Medicine Institute; Ministry of Justice(M.B.B.CH)

Email

dr.amer.sherbini@gmail.com

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First Name

Doaa

Last Name

El Shehaby

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department, Faculty of medicine, Assiut University, Egypt

Email

drdoaamoh@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0001-6027-2823

Volume

21

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

27484

Issue Date

2021-09-01

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2020-10-26

Publish Date

2021-09-01

Page Start

75

Page End

89

Print ISSN

1687-0875

Online ISSN

2535-1915

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429

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Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023