An injured child sits on a bed in a field hospital
IN PHOTO: An injured child sits on a bed in a field hospital after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Douma eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus January 25, 2015. Islamist fighters struck the Syrian capital with at least 38 rockets on Sunday, killing seven people, a monitoring group said, in one of heaviest attacks on Damascus in over a year. State media confirmed the attack and said at least four people were killed. It said the army was retaliating. The Saudi-backed Islam Army, based in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, had warned earlier that it would hit back against an air strike last week in Ghouta in which more than 40 people were killed. REUTERS/Mohammed Badra

Chinese national Wei Wang was convicted of aggravated assault in December 2014 in Richmond provincial court of Vancouver for pouring super glue on her 7-week-old nephew. However, the police revealed the details of conviction only on Tuesday. The 32-year-old woman was sentenced to four months of imprisonment and two months of probation.

Wang’s case started in February 2013 when the infant wailed non-stop. His parents then took him to the hospital, where after a thorough examination, the doctor found a hardened substance similar to a plastic, blocking the infant’s two ear canals. It was only after a strenuous surgery did they all find out that it was a super glue that caused too much pain on the baby. They are hoping the infant will have full recovery.

The incident was brought to the attention of Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which began a probe when it was ascertained the super glue did not reach the infant’s ears out of the blue. It was reported that the infant’s family members accounted to the police that Wang was anxious of losing family inheritance because of not having any sons, although she has been blessed with two daughters.

In China, culture and policy dictate the fate of children or eventually, the citizenry — males are given more value than females. Dennis Hwang, acting corporal of RCMP in Richmond, was quoted by Globe and Mail that jealousy was part of why the felony was committed because someone else was able to conceive a baby boy while she has not or may not be able to.

In Australia, the Chid Accident Prevention Foundation published a 2010 report that in 2006, 36 percent of children died from injury, in contrast with 19 percent due to cancer. The unintentional child injuries are among the major public health concerns in Australia with causes varying from transport related, drowning, unsafe sleeping environments, crush injuries and strangulation or suffocation.

In addition, Australia’s Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics regularly publishes reports on road safety, including young adult road safety, child pedestrian safety and road safety of older Australians. It accounted 73 road deaths just in February 2015.

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