Extramarital Affair Claims Child’s Life

In India two out of three children suffer from various types of abuse be it physical, emotional or sexual. Though the reasons can be manifold, mostly the sufferers are unwanted children. The present case is about a two year old female child who was brutally beaten by her mother, upon provocation by the mother's lover and was thrown away in a river bank. Though found alive at the time of recovery, she died in the hospital four days later. Meticulous autopsy examination was corroborative with the said incidence with evidences of multiple injuries all over the body including various fractures of bones. This is a unique case report of brutal physical abuse of a child who paid for her mother's extramarital affair.