Iraqi Family Arrested for Honoring Beating
On February - 21 - 2012
PHOENIX –An Iraqi mother is back behind bars accused of beating her daughter, and she’s not the only one in her family facing charges. Nineteen-year-old Aiya Altameemi got in trouble last Thursday for talking to a boy. Her mother was arrested for allegedly assaulting her, and now her father and sister have also been arrested. Officer James Holmes with the Phoenix Police Department says the arrests are related to two instances of alleged abuse. The first actually took place last November, involving the girl’s mother and her 18-year-old sister. They “held this young lady down while mom took a hot spoon and burned her on the face and on the chest,” says Holmes. READ MORE HERE
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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