Police investigate multiple bites on toddler

POLICE were yesterday investigating a mother’s complaint that her toddler daughter had been repeatedly bitten while in a private Nicosia kindergarten.

According to police, the girl had marks on her body showing that she had been bitten nine times by another child.

“The circumstances in which the wounds were causes will be determined through the ongoing investigation,” a police spokesman said.

At first, the school thought the child had a rash and called her mother to pick her up.

But a pathologist who examined the girl concluded they were bite marks.

The mother claims that the child was all right before she went to school. The kindergarten claims the bites did not happen on school grounds as the child was never left unattended.

Police has so far taken statements from the parents and kindergarten staff.

The school declined comment on the matter.

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