Toddler in coma after brutal beating by father

A MAN beat his four-year-old daughter’s head against the stone base of a Rome monument in front of tourists and a police officer, leaving the child in a coma, police said yesterday.

Carabinieri Lt Col Antonello Casarsa said the man, identified as Frenchman Julien Monnet, 37, repeatedly struck the head of his daughter, Luna, against the stone of the Altar of the Nation — a monument to Italy’s war victims in Rome’s Piazza Venezia — after a traffic officer asked to see some identification.

Bambino Gesu paediatric hospital said the child was comatose with severe head injuries on admission.