article_snippet: Corporal punishment is common in Egyptian schools, where official negligence has been blamed for the deaths in late 2014 of two children in accidents because of badly maintained equipment.
article_snippet: The number of child abuse cases in Egypt has reached alarming proportions.
article_snippet: Between January 2014 and the end of October, attacks on children increased by 55 per cent compared with the average over the previous three years, the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood said in December.
article_snippet: the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood said 50 per cent of the cases of violence against children were registered in schools.
article_snippet: In September, the director of a Cairo orphanage was sentenced to three years in jail for assaulting minors.
article_snippet: Video footage posted on the Internet show the director of a Cairo orphanage beating children who run away screaming.
article_snippet: In September, the director of a Cairo orphanage a Cairo orphanage was sentenced to three years in jail for assaulting minors .