A Georgian woman has been arrested in connection with a child beating case.

Police in Georgia have detained a woman suspected of beating her school-aged children.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on November 17, it was reported that a woman working as a nanny in Tbilisi has been charged with beating a one-year-old and a six-month-old. The violence was recorded by CCTV cameras in the home. An investigation has been launched under Part 1 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of Georgia (battery), which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison.

06:23 27.04.2021

A journalistic investigation has raised the issue of child abuse in Georgia

A three-year-old child in a Tbilisi kindergarten was beaten by a teacher. Children at an orphanage in Kojori had previously complained of systematic violence and psychological pressure, according to an investigation by the Rustavi 2 television channel. The Georgian Ombudsman's Office reported similar cases of violence against children at a boarding school in Ninotsminda.

Officers from the Marneuli District Police Department detained a woman born in 1994, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.

According to police, she physically abused her children, born in 2012 and 2016. "Multiple injuries" were found on the children's bodies, InterPressNews reported today.

An investigation has been launched under Part 2 of Article 126 of the Georgian Criminal Code; the woman faces up to three years in prison, the publication notes.

As a reminder, in April in Samegrelo, the mother and grandmother of a seven-year-old child were detained on charges of child abuse. According to investigators, the child was physically abused and suffered multiple injuries. According to Pirveli TV, the child was locked in a pigsty for several days before the beating, from which he managed to escape and seek help from his great-grandmother, who lives nearby. The child's mother, according to local residents, works as a kindergarten teacher.

Child abuse cases in the Caucasus have become more public and attract attention, but the number of such cases is not decreasing because cruelty and beatings of children "for educational purposes" have become normalized in society, according to human rights activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot."