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Killer parents: 10 cases where mothers and fathers murdered their own children. Wendy Rhodes. Palm Beach Post. 0:00. 2:08. Of all the crimes humans perpetrate against one another, there is...
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...
Annually about 450 children are intentionally murdered by a parent. More than three decades of FBI homicide data shows patterns stand out when parents kill their children: Three out of...
Parents were responsible for 61% of child murders under the age of five. Sometimes, there is a combination of murder and suicide in filicide cases. On average, according to FBI statistics, 450 children are murdered by their parents each year in the United States.
Yet filicide — the killing of a child by their mother, father or stepparent — is not as rare as some might imagine, with about 25 children killed by parents every year in Australia, or one child almost every two weeks.
AJ’s father initially reported his son was missing, but after finding the boy’s body in a nearby field, authorities charged parents JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr., with murder on April 25.
<p>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.
