Child Abuse on the Rise
Violence against children continues in an increasingly higher frequency despite severe penalties provided under the law for the crime.
January 17, 2006
THE tiny hands of the 11-month-old repeatedly reached out to caress his bandaged head, his round eyes glancing at every one around him as if pleading for help to let him freed of the bandages. Not a word emitted out of his lips. I dont understand why the little boy never asked for his mother and father, said a nurse at the Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital where Muhammad Lintar Syaputra was being treated for severe burns when Tempo visited him on Thurs
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