Accidents & Crime News and Articles related to District Sliven
Current date: 2009-12-06 05:44

A 3-year-old boy died after he was beaten by his mother, who wanted to make the child stop crying, the police in the Bulgarian town of Sliven reported. The boy was taken to hospital by his 19-year-old mother, who is of Roma origin, but doctors were unable to save his life. At first the mother claimed that another of her four children hit the boy on the head but later admitted she was the one who hit the child with a plank to make him stop crying. The mother was arrested and her children have been put under police protection, authorities said.