Publication: Futile Sexual Homicide in Nepal: A Case Report Authors
Date
2021
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Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Nepal Medical Association
Abstract
Abstract:
Although cases of sexual offenses are not uncommon in children, they present to the Emergency Department seeking treatment for a medical cause. Sometimes the history of abuse is missed by the treating clinicians who are only focused upon the presenting complaint and not upon the underlying cause. Furthermore, the lack of reporting of sexual abuse in medical literatures makes them a rarity in the Nepalese scenario. We present an uncommon case of a child where the perpetrator who tried to silence her during the sexual intercourse made a futile attempt to kill her cutting her throat with a sickle.
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Alok Atreya
Department of Forensic Medicine, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6657-7871
Shiva Pandit
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
Samata Nepal
Department of Community Medicine, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9189-4510
Jun Bajracharya
Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
Deepak Shrestha
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lumbini Medical College, Palpa, Nepal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9006-3640
Keywords
child abuse, sexual, homicide, Nepal, rape, sex offenses.