Child abuse rockets during lockdown with 10 babies as young as 17 days old with head injuries at one hospital in a month
One hospital treated ten babies as young as 17 days old for head injuries from suspected abuse during the first month of lockdown.London's Great Ormond Street Hospital saw a 15-fold increase in the number of apparent child abuse cases during lockdown compared to previous yearsA study found London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital saw nearly 15 times the number of cases of children abused at home compared with the same period in the previous three years.
Scans revealed brain bleeds, tissue bruising and skull fractures as well as bone fractures elsewhere. Experts compared the number of new cases of head injury caused by abuse with the same period from 2017 to 2019 when there were 0.67 cases per month. They wrote in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood: “This sobering figure is likely under-represented due to public avoidance of hospitals at this time.
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