Parents with mental illness pose higher risk to children
Children of parents suffering from mental illness have a higher risk of suffering physical abuse than other children, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. gettyimagesbankBy Bahk Eun-jiWhen a woman found a nine-year-old girl at around 6:20 p.m. on the street in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, May 29, the girl had severe wounds such as bruises around her eyes and blisters on her fingers. Some of her fingernails were missing, and there were cuts on her head.It was also reported that the girl was wearing thin pajamas and large slippers that adults would wear. The woman immediately contacted the police when the girl showed her burned hand to the woman, saying “My father put my hands on a frying pan to remove my fingerprints so that police cannot bring me back when I run away from home.” “It was because my daughter didn't listen to me,” the stepfather said during a police investigation, admitting to some of the abuse, but denying habitual violence.The girl has been hospitalized and treated at a hospital in the province and
