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CNN — It’s the most unfathomable of crimes: a parent killing their own child. It grabs headlines when it happens – like this week in Georgia, where a mom is accused of stabbing four of her...
Over a four-day period in September, three children in Louisiana were killed by their parents in unrelated incidents.
A 15-year-old boy accused of killing his parents and three siblings at their Washington state home shot them and then called police to falsely claim that his brother committed the slayings ...
Between 1977 and 1986, more than 300 parents were killed each year by their own children. Don't think that these children fit any of the classic stereotypes--the kind we believe keeps murder...
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word filicide is derived from the Latin words filius and filia ('son' and 'daughter') and the suffix -cide, from the word caedere meaning 'to kill'. The word can refer to both the crime and perpetrator of the crime.
In 2022, around 363 children died due to abuse by two parents, and 473 children died due to abuse by their mother.
Over the last three decades U.S. parents have committed filicide — the killing of one’s child — about 500 times every year. The horrifying instances are often poorly understood, but a recent study provides the first comprehensive statistical overview of the tragic phenomenon.
Among children under age 5 years in the United States who were murdered in the last quarter of the 20th century, 61% were killed by their own parents: 30% were killed by their mothers, and 31% by their fathers (1).
The headlines lit up social media feeds that mild January afternoon as newsreaders stumbled over bulletins, their voices quivering: Katie Perinovic and her three little kids, Claire, 7, Anna, 5, and Matthew, 3, had been found dead in their brown brick home in the Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine.
Neonaticide, the killing of a child within the first 24 hours of life, almost always occurs at the hands of the mother, often a young, unmarried woman with an unwanted pregnancy who received no prenatal care and who is not subsequently determined to have a mental disorder.