False Claim: Girls Love to Kill Babies and Have Sex with Boyfriends Enemies
“girls love to kill their babies and then start fucking the boy their boyfreind hate”
Summary
Research shows that maternal child homicide is a rare and complex phenomenon, not a common behavior driven by affection for killing. There is no evidence supporting the idea that girls routinely kill their babies or then engage in sexual activity with a boyfriend they dislike. The statement is an unfounded, hateful generalization.
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- Filicide: a comparative study of maternal versus paternal child homicide - PubMed
Seventy-nine men and 82 women were detained in the hospital under criminal charges in that period, having killed (132) or attempted to kill (29) their own child(ren). Differences between men and women were found with regard to age, methods of killing and motivation underlying the filicide.
- Child homicide perpetrators worldwide: a systematic review | BMJ Paediatrics Open
Approximately 95 000 child are murdered each year globally (UNICEF 2014), and being murdered in childhood is strongly associated with age, gender and geography. In many settings, homicide data are incomplete, and information on the victim–perpetrator relationship is lacking, seriously limiting ...
- Mothers who kill their offspring: Testing evolutionary hypothesis in a 110-case Italian sample - ScienceDirect
Relatively young, poor women with no partner kill their offspring non-violently, either directly or through abandonment, and they attempt to conceal the body. These women have no psychopathologies and never attempt suicide after killing their ...
- Experiences and perspectives of women who have committed ...
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- Gender Differences in Homicide of Neonates, Infants, and Children under 5 y in South Africa: Results from the Cross-Sectional 2009 National Child Homicide Study - PMC
Overall, there was no gender bias among child homicides, but 56% of homicides of boys took place in an urban setting, compared to 44% of homicides of girls. Finally, young mothers were the most common perpetrators of child homicide. These findings show that, in 2009, the rates of infanticide ...
- Killing One's Children: Maternal Infanticide and the Dark Figure of Homicide (From Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending, P 91-114, 2006, Karen Heimer and Candace Kruttschnitt, eds., -- See NCJ-214516) | Office of Justice Programs
One of the striking findings was the large proportion infanticides (24 percent) and neonaticides (70 percent) for which the offender was never identified. The manner in which many of these victims died and were discarded indicated that the killers acted with the intention of killing and hiding ...
- Gender Inequality and Child Homicide: A State-Level Analysis | Office of Justice Programs
This study tests the hypothesis that interstate variations in the level of gender inequality are related to differences in the rates of child homicide; the higher the level of gender inequality, the higher the homicide rate of victims younger than five years old.
- Lucy Letby did not murder babies, claim medical experts
A team of medical experts have outlined what they say is "significant new evidence" in Lucy Letby's case · Child killer Lucy Letby did not murder any babies, a panel of international medical experts reviewing evidence in her case has claimed.
- Australian mother jailed for baby deaths should finally be cleared, say scientists | Science | The Guardian
Both girls were reported to have had respiratory illnesses before their deaths. Last week Nature reported that many scientists who contacted the journal said they found this evidence persuasive.
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