KAOHSIUNG: A toddler died in Taiwan on Tuesday after being beaten violently by her father, the second fatal child abuse case in four days following the tragedy of a baby girl who was thrown into boiling water.

The two-year-old was flogged with a broomstick twice on Tuesday in her southern Kaohsiung county home by her 40-year-old father for being noisy and disobedient, Taiwan's China Times reported yesterday.

The father later tied the girl to a bed before he left for work at a take-away shop.

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