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Filicide: The Murder of a Child by a Parent!

  Filicide – is a horrifying crime that, sadly, happens more often than we’d like to think; a crime that often shocks and horrifies the public when a parent kills their child. In fact, there is no greater tragedy or act of unimaginable desperation and despair.   Furthermore, in the United States, filicide – the murder of a child by a parent – occurs an average of 500 times per year. And while the motivations for such a heinous act are...