A common case in Iraq.. Why do parents document the torture of their children?

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[size=52]A common case in Iraq.. Why do parents document the torture of their children?[/size]

[size=45]Yesterday, Wednesday, social affairs researcher Mustafa Al-Taie commented on some parents in Iraq filming their children’s abuse and publishing it on social media sites.[/size]
[size=45]In 2019, 1,606 cases of violence against children were registered, according to data from the Supreme Judicial Council. As for the year 2021, there were 1,141 cases of domestic violence against children, while 500 cases were recorded during the first half of the current year. Al-Taie said in a press statement, “The fact that some parents film the process of abusing their children indicates the great psychological illness that these parents suffer from. Through this documentation, they are trying to fill the gap within themselves. Some parents also brag about this work and send the ‘videos’ to people from... In order to show off, some people take the initiative to publish these videos or have them leaked by some family members in order to save the family or children from this violence.”[/size]
[size=45]He stated, “Publishing video clips showing the violence against children or even women has greatly contributed to saving the abused from the hands of those who are abusing them, and they undoubtedly suffer from psychological illnesses or are under the influence of narcotic substances while they are carrying out such work and filming it, and this is what “Many investigations have confirmed this recently.”[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that Iraq is one of the first countries to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. However, it witnessed a significant increase in the rates of violence against children after 2003, due to the lack of application of laws and the political and security crises that the country went through, with the absence of health care. Educational, social, exploitation of children and their recruitment into military actions and armed conflicts.[/size]
[size=45]Previous reports revealed that about 90% of children between the ages of one and 14 years are exposed to violence in one way or another in various ways.[/size]
[size=45]Earlier, reports from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned of the consequences of prolonged violence against children, describing it as reaching dangerous levels in Iraq. Human Rights Watch stated that 80% of Iraqi children are exposed to violence. The Iraqi Penal Code No. 111 of 1969 and the Juvenile Law of 1983 addressed the issue of violence against children, as it increased the penalty for assaulting children under the age of 18. These penalties are graded according to the type of violence, including that rape of a child is punishable by death, and beating that causes disability is punishable by imprisonment for more than 3 years.[/size]
[size=45]Recently, Iraq has witnessed a frightening and noticeable increase in cases of violence and torture against children at the hands of their parents in various ways. The most notable of which was a mother throwing her two children into the Tigris River from the top of a bridge north of the capital, Baghdad. Another is for a father who executed his three children by hanging to death in Maysan Governorate due to his family’s disputes with his wife.[/size]
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