Saturday, March 3, 2012

Man beats child's head on Rome monument

A man beat his 4-year-old daughter's head against the stone base of a Rome monument in front of tourists and a police officer, leaving the child in a coma, police said Sunday.

Carabinieri Lt. Col. Antonello Casarsa said the man, identified as Frenchman Julien Monnet, 37, repeatedly struck the head of his daughter, Luna, against the stone of the Altar of the Nation _ a towering monument to Italy's war victims in Rome's Piazza Venezia _ after a traffic officer asked to see some identification.

Bambino Gesu pediatric hospital said the child was comatose with severe head injuries when she was admitted shortly before midnight.

"Her condition is …

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