Cohle S D, Trestrail J D, Graham M A, Oxley D W, Walp B, Jachimczyk J
Blodgett Memorial Medical Center, Grand Rapids, Mich 49506.
Am J Dis Child. 1988 Jun;142(6):633-6. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1988.02150060067034.
Eight patients (five previously undescribed) died due to aspiration of pepper. Seven deaths involved homicides, and one death was accidental in a child with documented pica. The pepper was administered by the mothers in three children and by a foster mother, the mother's boyfriend, an adult male friend, and the child's godfather in one case each. Homicidal pepper aspiration shares many of the features of more conventional child abuse: in each instance, the child was being punished, four of the seven assailants initially gave incorrect histories, and four children were chronically abused. The facts that each death occurred in a different state and that five of the seven homicides occurred within the two years preceding the preparation of this report suggest that this form of child abuse is not confined to any single part of the country and may be increasing in infrequency.
八名患者（其中五名此前未被描述过）因吸入胡椒粉死亡。七起死亡涉及他杀，一起死亡是一名有异食癖记录的儿童意外死亡。三名儿童的胡椒粉是由母亲喂食的，另外四起案件中，胡椒粉分别由一名养母、母亲的男友、一名成年男性朋友和孩子的教父喂食。他杀性胡椒粉吸入与更常见的虐待儿童行为有许多共同特征：在每起案件中，儿童都受到了惩罚，七名攻击者中有四名最初给出了不实陈述，四名儿童长期遭受虐待。每起死亡事件发生在不同的州，且七起他杀案件中有五起发生在本报告撰写前的两年内，这些事实表明这种虐待儿童的形式并不局限于该国的任何一个地区，而且可能越来越不常见。
