Iraqi police rescue a 100-year-old woman from the abuse and insults of her children
An incident caused an uproar on social media, if a century-old Iraqi elderly woman was subjected to violence and beatings by her relatives, before the Iraqi police rescued her from death and entered the nursing home.
"Sky News" quoted the Director of the Community Police in Iraq, Brigadier Ghaleb Al-Attiyah, the details of the incident, saying: "A report was received to the Community Police, regarding the presence of an old woman, on one of the sidewalks in the capital, Baghdad, who was beaten and expelled." At the hands of her family, (her son), where we were able, after a dialogue with her family, to return her to her home, with one of her sons.
Al-Attiyah added that "the old woman was in a difficult situation, and we were able to identify the address of her relatives, and return her to them, after understanding the problem between the two sides, and it was resolved by the competent team."
Iraq does not have - so far - a domestic violence law, and it relies on legal articles that allow the husband and father to “discipline” the sons or the wife by beating “as long as they do not exceed the limits of Sharia.
The Iraqi police usually resort to taking pledges on the one who caused the harm in the case of the victim's father or mother, husband or son, and it suffices to conduct "reconciliation" between the two parties in some cases, and in the event that the culprit is the father, it obliges the children to return home.
Domestic violence is a major problem in Iraq, where one out of every 5 Iraqi women is exposed to physical domestic violence, according to studies by human rights organizations, and this is prohibited by the Iraqi constitution.
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