The police last year received nine reports of children having been abandoned by their parents, Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici said. 

He said there were three cases in Valletta, two in St Paul's Bay and one each in Birkirkara, Cospicua, Senglea and Sliema.

The minister also said that last year the police received 659 reports of domestic violence. 

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