‘World’s worst’: fetal alcohol hits one in eight VICTORIA LAURIE The Australian January 17, 2015 12:00AM 3 Six week old brains compared: a normal brain (left) and a foetal alcohol syndrome brain (right). Source: Supplied A LANDMARK health study has found that one in eight children, or 120 children per 1000, in remote Aboriginal communities of the Fitzroy Valley in Western Australia suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. The devastating findings of the Liliwan Study have revealed the highest level of alcohol-related disability diagnosed in children in Australia, and one of the highest rates in the world. Comparable rates have been reported in South Africa’s Cape Province region, where between 104 and 160 children per 1000 suffer from FAS as a result of farm workers being paid in alcohol. But James Fitzpatrick, the lead researcher on the six-year study of Aboriginal school-aged children living around the Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing,…
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Woman who attacked her boyfriend with a hammer, pole and broken bottle jailed for eight years after ‘one of the worst’ cases of domestic violence police have seen Gemma Hollings, 37, attacked partner after row over hair straighteners Paul Kirkpatrick, 30, was slashed across the neck with a broken bottle Also hit with hammer and pole, leaving him with broken bone in his face Police found victim covered in blood in the street after he ran from home By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline A woman who hit her partner with a hammer and pole, and slashed him with a broken glass bottle has been jailed for eight years. Gemma Hollings, 37, was jailed for two counts of grievous bodily harm, and two of assault, in ‘one of the worst cases of domestic violence’ police had ever seen. Paul Kirkpatrick, 30, had his neck slashed with a bottle, suffered a…