Infant dies in domestic violence incident in Crete

Police car via Kathimerini

Xinhua — A five-month-old infant died during a domestic violence incident in Siteia  police announced on Thursday.

The boy who succumbed to heavy head and neck injuries allegedly inflicted on him by his 52 yr old father while in his mothers arms. Thr The victim’s father was arrested.

The boy was taken to the local hospital and he was later transferred to Heraklion General for surgery but the doctors there could not save him.

The mother, a 30 yr old woman told police that her intoxicated husband attacked her while she was holding her child.

The father remains in police custody.