Citation

Busuttil A. Med. Sci. Law 1994; 34(3): 253-256.

Affiliation

University of Edinburgh.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7968404

Abstract

In a six-year-old child presenting with vaginal bleeding, considered to be the consequence of sexual abuse by a stepfather, a colposcopically identified vaginal lesion was biopsied. This showed a chronic inflammatory lesion which could have been the consequence of recurrent, self-inflicted, masturbatory injury. Various controversial aspects of this case are discussed.

Language: en