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Child Abuse and Torture:  Birth through 13 Years Old
 
 
 
 

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Infant Torture
 
From birth to 3 years old, infants and toddlers suffer brutal, torturous acts of violence yet are expected to come through the experience happy and normal.  Each person must judge by their own experience if this is discipline, abuse, brutality or torture.
 
  • Beaten on head
  • Body scrubbed with wire brush
  • Choked
  • Dent in skull size of man's fist
  • Dropped
  • Hold (underwater) to prevent breathing
  • Hospitalized for urine burns
  • Left inside a hot car
  • Left on floor
  • Left outside in cold
  • Thrown
  • Pinched
  • Tossed
  • Violent swinging
  • Placed in very hot or cold water
  • Punched in body
  • Punched in head
  • Shaking (by shoulders)
  • Slapped
  • Spanked
  • Stepped on
  • Submerged in water
  • Suffocated
  • Targeted hitting so injuries won't show
  • Placed in dumpster
  
 
Drugged Infant**
 
  • Given cough syrup in bottle to make them sleep
  • Put powdered drugs in bottle
  • Dilute alcohol in bottle to make them sleep
 
 
**The foundation for addiction later in life.  Vulnerability to drug if mother used while pregnant.
 
 

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