‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’. The vicious cycle of a malnourished child growing into an unhealthy adolescent, and then further into an anaemic pregnant young woman giving birth to an asphyxiated low birth weight baby; this baby then facing possible developmental delays, only to grow into a malnourished child; and this child who struggles further …
Japanese couple Noriku and Hidufun M. from Molenschot in Noord-Brabant are facing attempted manslaughter charges for seriously neglecting and starving six of their seven children. "The children were in a serious condition, they would not have lasted much longer", the Public Prosecutor said during the first hearing in this case in September last year. "He was the boss, he didn't …
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