Lebanese hunted for violence against wife, child

"He beat me and insulted me regularly. Two days ago, he was caught doing the same to my child," Messara told reporters at the Islamic Hospital in Tripoli, where she was taken together with her son on Saturday.
"He beat him on the head in such a way that my son threw up several times. He then burned his body with cigarettes," said the veiled victim, who appeared to be still in a state of shock.
The husband "drank excessively" and had threatened the "worst revenge" before attacking the child, she added, without giving other details of the reasons for the violence.
The child must now have several operations on different parts of the body for his injuries, a hospital source said.
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