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Filicide: The Murder of a Child by a Parent!

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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 often complex and nuanced, the outcome is always heartbreaking. 

The loss of innocence and trust for the child. For the parent, it descends into a hellish abyss of guilt, regret, or nothing. 

In this blog post, I’ll explore the motivations behind filicide.

A Brief Introduction Who Commits Filicide? 

While this heinous act can be motivated by many factors, ranging from greed to mental illness, one thing is always clear: The child was innocent, and their death was preventable. 

That said, in the United States, filicide is the leading cause of death for children 1-5 years old. 

To this end, an estimated 1,500 children are killed by their parents yearly.

While it’s a crime that cuts across all demographics, some common risk factors may contribute to a parent becoming capable of murder. 

Why do parents kill their children?

While it’s impossible to know exactly why a parent would kill their child, there are some possible explanations. 

Filicide is not an uncommon calamity; a study supported by the National Institute of Health found that about 15% of homicide arrests over 32 years were filicidal.

However, research studies have identified five motivations of adults who murder children.

  •  The parent kills the child because they may perceive it to be in the child’s best interest. It may be reality-based (e.g., the child suffers from a terminal illness.
  • The parent kills the child based on ideas, not based on reality. For example, the parent believes the devil has possessed the child.
  • Unwanted child: The parent kills the child they consider a hindrance.
  • Accidental: The child’s death is an unintentional outcome of parental physical abuse.
  • Spousal revenge: The parent kills the child to get revenge on the spouse or partner.

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Intimate partner violence (IPV)…let’sTalk

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Intimate partner violence Intimate partner violence (IPV) …my family was dealt a devastating blow when we lost an integral member to it. 

My great-niece became an orphan thanks to her father’s murder of this child’s mother and suicide right afterward – but it could have been so much worse since she was in the house.

The sad situation is that this little child was home when her dad murdered her mommy. Unfortunately…This moment will become something she needs to deal with for years, maybe even decades.

Who knows, the awful circumstances that led up today? 

There has been some recent trouble between them at home, but none would explain why he committed such vicious crimes.

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The Shooting Of Ahmaud Arbery Was “Murder”

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 The Shooting Of Ahmaud Arbery Was “Murder”

 

In exclusive interview former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was clear about how she sees the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery; 

an unarmed 25-year-old Black man: It’s “murder,” she said. 

“What we saw happen in that video, what I read about in those stories, is a violation of every notion of decency and justice. It was murder,” Abrams explained.

.@staceyabrams responds to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery: “It was murder.”

Ten weeks ago, Arbery was jogging in a neighborhood in Georgia before he was chased and shot by two armed white men. The two men still haven’t been arrested.

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 7, 2020

It was nothing but murder.

While the shooting happened back in February, a Georgia prosecutor recommend a grand jury consider charges only earlier this week, after a video of the incident was made public.

“That murder should be held to account and the murderer should as well,” said Abrams. “The way we get the justice we deserve is by electing people who believe we deserve that justice.” 

Attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing the family, told CNN Sunday “the decision to rely on the citizen’s arrest statute is really a recent invention, prior to that they just simply said it was self defense.

” Merritt says now the men are trying to use the law to say they were trying to stop a crime.

“According to that law, you actually have to be observing the crime or be in the immediate knowledge of the crime.

” Merritt said. “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window.

,We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.