Rampant domestic violence | Woman kills her son in western Qalamoun
Rif Dimashq province: SOHR sources have reported that a woman killed her 15-year-old boy in Al-Marrah village in western Qalamoun, as she was punishing him for smoking, sabotaging the house’s contents and bothering the village’s inhabitants. Local authorities have arrested the mother. According to SOHR sources, the woman was suffering from dreadful living conditions and she killed her son by hitting him with a sharp tool on his head several times, after having tied his hands and legs with a rope.
This comes as a part of the rampant domestic violence in all zones of influence throughout Syria.
The Syrian Observatory has documented 18 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2023, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 21 civilians: five women, 14 young and adult men and two children, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:
- Al-Suwaydaa: Three murder crimes left three men dead.
- Rif Dimashq: Six murder crimes left a woman, five men and a child dead.
- Homs: Two murder crimes left a woman and a young man dead
- Hama: Two murder crimes left two men dead.
- Daraa: One murder crime left a man dead.
- Damascus: Two murder crimes left a woman and a man dead.
- Latakia: Three murder crimes left a man and two women dead.
- Aleppo: One murder crime left a child dead.