Abstract:

Our study examined the reports of judicial autopsy of 146 children who were post-death examined at the Morg Institute of Judicial Medicine between 1996 and 1998 and assessed the demographic characteristics of the events, the causes of death and the origin of death. Of the cases, 62 (42.5%) are girls and 83 (56.8%) are boys. Accidents are ranked first with 37 incidents (24.6 percent), followed by 33 (22.6 percent) natural deaths and 10 (6.9 percent) murder. The remaining 67 (45.9%) of the deaths were uncovered. Among the causes of death, pneumonia is ranked first with the phenomenon 24 (16.4 percent), while CO poisoning with the phenomenon 11 (7.5 percent) is ranked second. 15 (10.3%) in the case of death causes cannot be identified, while 48 (32%). 9) It is understood that the incident was sent to the Special Council to determine the cause of death. Our study emphasizes that, in the early age of child deaths, in addition to the detailed examination of the place of the incident and the judicial examination of the dead, in the judicial autopsy that will be applied, the detailed examination and examination of the deaths play a great role in the discovery of the cause of the death.

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