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RESEARCH PRODUCT

SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE: UNUSUAL DEATH IN WESTERN COUNTRY. SUICIDE OR HOMICIDE?

Letizia AvernaAntonina ArgoFilippo Maria CascinoAntonino NicosiaTommaso D'annaPaolo Procaccianti

subject

child abuse suicide homicideSettore MED/43 - Medicina Legale

description

This case report describes a particular case of carbonized corpse, found in his burnt-out car in an isolated Palermo’s west suburban zone. The goal of this case report is to describe the shame and the social stigma related with suspicious of pedophilia and how it led a man to suicide by fire, considering that is an unusual way to die in western countries

10.3269/1970-5492.2012.7.11http://hdl.handle.net/10447/75868