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Where Does a Parent Whose Child Was Injured Make a Complaint?

Author · Av. Ayşenur Konar, Avukat

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In short

The parent of a child who was injured makes a complaint of bodily injury to the police or to the public prosecutor. If the child needs care, a health institution or 112 comes first. The complaint does not stand in for treatment. The minute writes the mark the parent saw, the place they know, the person they know, and the health institution they took the child to. The child's words are not rehearsed. A minute is not built from the child's mouth. This writing is the door of bodily injury. A period and a year of a sentence are not added.

Where the complaint is made, and by whom

A complaint of bodily injury is made to the police, or to the office of the chief public prosecutor, in writing, or orally so that it is entered in a minute. One of the two doors does not close the other. A minute given to the police is forwarded to the public prosecutor's office. Having been forwarded does not of itself complete a missing line. The receipt number is kept. If there is no number, which day it was, and which authority was gone to, is written. A later annex carries this number, or this day.

The parent signs the complaint in their own name. A signature is not put in the child's place. If custody is joint, each parent can tell what they themselves saw, in their own statement. The other parent's silence does not of itself erase this statement. If custody is gathered in one person, the signature is read from that record. If there is no record, an order is not invented. The custody action itself is not the subject of this petition. If the file number of a divorce or custody file is known, it is written only to show the capacity of representative. That action is not the complaint of the bodily injury.

If the injury is thought to have come from an adult in the home, the complaint is still made to the police or to the public prosecutor. The person who lives in the same home does not always have to be the one who makes the complaint. The parent who saw it writes the mark they saw and the time they know. They do not drill the child in what to say. They do not propose a condition to the other side for withdrawing the complaint. Proposing a condition does not enter the bodily fact in the record.

What the parent saw stands in the minute

The complaint carries what the parent themselves saw. It is written when they noticed the injury, which health institution they took the child to, the place they know, and the person they know. A school, a sports hall, a street, or a dwelling stands to the extent it is known. An unknown address is not filled by guesswork. The day of the event and the day the health institution was gone to are written separately. If the two are not the same, they are not squeezed onto the same line. If the hour is not certain, it is said to be approximate. It is not built as if there were a certain hour.

The parent does not write a movement they did not see as if they had seen it. What they heard from the child, and what they themselves saw, are in separate sentences. A sentence that was heard is not presented as the fact the parent saw. The name of a person who is not known is not completed. If a manner, clothing, or a vehicle that was recognised is known, that much is written. An identity is not invented. If there is more than one person, the movement that is known of each stands apart. Everyone who was standing beside them is not counted as the person who did the act.

If the school, or the sports place, kept a writing, and it was given to the parent, the writing is added. A note is not added on top of the writing. Other children are not drilled in what to say. The statements of other parents are not written into your minute from their mouths. They tell what they themselves saw, in their own names. Your complaint does not erase their will.

The request line says that the bodily injury is to be investigated, and that a complaint is made. A year of imprisonment is not written. A sentence of "let a penalty be given" does not stand in for the fact that was seen. The parent does not choose the name of the offence. The child's age, and the nature of the injury, can change whether the proceedings depend on a complaint. The public prosecutor builds this separation. The parent's complaint must still be entered in the record. The record is kept even without a characterisation being made.

The child's statement stays with the officer

The parent does not drill the child in the words they will tell. Having a sentence rehearsed does not build the complaint. Asking the same question again and again at home does not clarify what the child themselves saw. If a statement is to be taken, the officer takes it. The parent does not stand in for that session. A minute is not written from the child's mouth. A line built in the minute as if the child's sentence were there is not the parent's own statement. If the officer is to hear the child separately, the place and the procedure of the hearing are the officer's work. This page does not describe that procedure.

If the parent is summoned, they tell the fact they know. They do not complete a detail they do not remember with a sentence the child might have said. Saying "I do not know" is sounder than a detail that was guessed. If the child is summoned too, the parent does not answer in the room in the child's place. The child's silence does not erase the mark the parent saw. The parent's account is not counted as the child's statement either. The two accounts stand apart in the file.

If there is a detail remembered later, it is added as a separate statement, and with which day it belongs to written. A sentence is not added from the child's mouth in the margin of the old minute. The annex carries the old investigation number. If there is no number, the day of the first complaint is written.

The health paper is added, and a diagnosis is not

If the child needs care, a health institution or 112 comes first. The complaint does not stand in for treatment. The treatment does not stand in for the complaint minute either. The document the institution gave is kept. The name of the document is the name the institution wrote. The parent does not add a diagnosis, an arrow, or a new sentence to the report. A finding that is not written on the paper is not placed in the petition as if it were the physician's sentence. The mark the parent saw can stand in a separate sentence as a complaint. The complaint is not presented as the physician's finding.

If the document has not yet issued, it is written that it has not issued. A sentence that will issue is not completed in advance. If the document arrives later, the annex states which application it was placed on. A later examination is a new paper. The new paper does not stand in for the first. Both stand with their own date. If a photograph was taken earlier, it can be added without its date being changed. Writing is not written on the photograph. The photograph does not correct the physician's line. The technique of taking it is not on this page.

The health paper does not stand in for the complaint. The complaint does not stand in for the paper either. The two are separate. Even without the paper, the parent can tell the bodily fact they saw. The account is not built by inventing a diagnosis that is not written in the report. The document entering the investigation file is in the flow of the article on how a public prosecutor's investigation works. The general use of the capacity of victim is in the article on how a victim's rights are used. The parent can ask for information within this frame as the child's representative. The request does not determine the direction of the judgment in advance.

An accident file is not the same petition as this complaint

If the injury is in a traffic accident, the frame of the criminal file is in the article on the criminal file after an accident. Heads of compensation, insurance, and a rate of fault are not told in this complaint text. The parent does not fill the criminal complaint like a petition for compensation. The two routes are not counted as having joined on the same page. In an accident the bodily fact is written too. Its being written does not mean that an insurance application was made. If there is an accident-finding minute, it can be added as it stands. The fault line in the minute is not rewritten with the parent's sentence.

A bodily injury that arose at school, in a park, or during sport is from the same complaint door too. The place of the event does not of itself change the authority of the complaint. The authority is the police or the public prosecutor. The place stands on the fact line of the minute. If more than one child was injured, the parent of each child writes what they themselves saw, in their own name. A shared text is not built from the mouths of all the children with a single signature.

If a new health paper, or a new observation, arises after the complaint, the annex is written to the old number. The new observation is not produced by having the child repeat it. The parent writes, in their own sentence, the new mark they saw that day. They do not tell the old complaint from the start, in the same words, as if it were a second offence. If there are two acts, the two acts stand apart. A single blow, and a mark noticed on a later day, can be part of the same event. The separation is left by writing the dates. The public prosecutor characterises whether it is a single act or a separate act.

The receipt number ties the later paper

When the minute number, or the investigation number, issues, the number is kept. The later health paper is added with this number. If there is no number, the first authority and the first day are written. Telling the same injury like a new event without a number can give the impression of two files. If there is a new blow, that blow is written in a sentence separate from the old mark, and with its own day. The parent does not join the two sentences by having the child repeat them. Identity, the custody record if there is one, and a legible copy of the health paper are taken together. If the child's identity is asked for, it is shown. A note is not written on the identity. The note is on a separate line of the petition.

Conclusion

The parent of a child who was injured takes a complaint of bodily injury to the police or to the public prosecutor. If care is needed, the health institution is first. The minute writes what the parent saw. The child's words are not rehearsed. The health paper is added without the writing on it being changed. Compensation for an accident is not built in this petition. The frame is on the criminal law page. There is a contact route for an application in which the minute stands. The basis is the text of the Turkish Criminal Code, Law No. 5237, and, for the procedure of a complaint, the Criminal Procedure Code, Law No. 5271.

Legislation

Frequently asked questions

Must I take the complaint only to the public prosecutor?

No. The parent of a child who was injured makes a complaint of bodily injury to the police or to the public prosecutor. One of the two doors does not of itself close the other. The minute that was taken is kept. If the child needs care, a health institution or 112 comes first.

Should I have the child tell the event at home?

No. The parent does not have the child's words rehearsed, and does not write a minute from the child's mouth. If a statement is to be taken, the officer takes it. The parent writes, in their own sentence, the mark they saw, the place they know, and the health institution they took the child to.

Do I add a diagnosis to the health document?

It is not added. The name of the document is the name the institution printed. The parent does not write a diagnosis, an arrow, or a new sentence on the paper. The document is placed in the annex of the complaint as it stands. If there is no document, it is said that there is none. The absence is not filled with a finding that was not seen.

In a traffic accident, is compensation written in this petition too?

It is not written. The frame of the criminal file after an accident is in a separate article. Heads of compensation, insurance, and a rate of fault are not told in this complaint text. The parent writes the bodily fact in the criminal complaint. The two routes are not counted as having joined on the same page.

Do I have to complete the name of a person I do not know?

You do not. The parent writes what they saw. They do not fill a detail they do not know by guesswork. The place that is known, and the name that is known, are enough. A missing identity does not of itself close the complaint. Having the child say a name they do not know does not build this completion either.

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Av. Ayşenur Konar

Lawyer on the Ankara Bar Association roll, founder of Konar Hukuk. This text is general information; a specific file is reviewed separately. Author profile · Editorial policy

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