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Increase in abuse by children
• 17 May 2007 •
MALAGA heads the top of the list when it comes to reported violence inflicted by children in Andalucia, with a total of 212 cases last year, compared to 142 in 2005, when Seville came first.
This has led the Malaga Welfare Office to duplicate its teams of family treatment specialists, who act only when social services raise the alarm.
It is believed that a youth who has been victim of ill treatment has the potential to become an aggressor. There are more cases of parents reporting their children for attacking them and in extreme cases requesting a restraining order. It is not only that delinquency is reported to be growing, but some parents have gone to the public prosecutor for trivial matters such as their children having pulled their hair or pushed them, which though not grave, are still offences.
Telephone calls reporting violence by children totalled 953 in 2006; of those, 15 per cent came from Malaga. Most calls were anonymous. The aggressor was reported to be the mother in 32 per cent of the cases, both parents in 29 per cent, and the father in 12 per cent of the cases. |  Return to Top
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