As declared by the United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child, every child has the right to live in safety and security. Yet hundreds of thousands around the globe suffer the long term effects of child abuse. It is a problem very few organizations are prepared to face.

Child beating parents are bad news at any time, but there are incidents where even children who have become stars, are beaten, in what would seem to be a continuing cycle of abuse.

Mohammed Ismail kicked and hit his ten-year-old son Azharuddin, witnessed by horrified neighbours and passers-by. Slumdog Millionaire star cried for his father to stop, as he tried to cower in a corner.

Azharuddin had just flown back from Los Angeles where the film had been awarded eight Oscars. After the long flight, Asharuddin had been given a rest day off school, but his father wanted to show him off to the neighbourhood. The ugly scene was in total contrast to the day before, when on Azharuddin's jubilant  return to the slums, his father hoisted him up and paraded him around like some well earned trophy.

Ismail, who suffers from tuberculosis, apologized for the attack several hours later.

The tennis champion who has won five WTA Tour titles, Jelena Dokic and reached a career-high by ranking fourth in 2002, recently spoke out in an interview, about how her father would regularly beat her during tennis tournaments.

Jelena fled from her family in 2002, in order to evade the brutality. However, the years following the break up were filled with mental turmoil and severe depression. Jelena has struggled with her form and injuries and is currently ranked number 74 in the world, but is fighting her way back.

When questioned about the incidents, Damir Dokic said, "A child, if they show that they are talented in something, should never be left alone. They should always be forced, I think even pushed into it. There are no limits". Damir Dokic claimed the 2001 Open draw was rigged and threatened to pull Jelena out of the Australian Olympic Team. He was thrown out from the US Open in 2000 for abusing staff about the cost of a salmon lunch. Dokic also hugged the headlines when he destroyed the mobile phone belonging to a journalist, during Wimbledon. In 1999 he was banished from a tournament after calling match officials 'Nazis'. He was later arrested after going into the street outside the arena, blocking traffic and jumping on the hood of a parked vehicle.

Damir Dokic, who is renowned for his unpredictable behavior was recently arrested and detained in Serbia for supposedly threatening to fire a rocket at the Australian ambassador's car in Belgrade, as vengeance for Jelena returning to Australia. Dokic says he is considering kidnapping his estranged daughter.

When Dokic's home in Fruska Gora was searched it revealed two illegal bombs, plus seven licensed hunting rifles and a Beretta handgun.

Dokic was incensed over the interview his daughter gave, saying he had beaten her. Dokic wants to sell his farm, where he runs a brandy-making business and create a tennis centre, where he will coach would-be tennis stars. Dokic was once a boxer. He was given the nickname of 'Mad Dad'.

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