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Woman Suspected of Killing 5 Newborns

German woman says she was afraid husband would leave

(Newser) - A German woman charged with killing five of her newborn babies says she was afraid her husband—who didn't want any more kids—would leave her. The 28-year-old and her husband have two living children, 8 and 10, and the husband was unaware of the subsequent births. She has...

Ethicists: Killing Babies Should Be Legal

Authors get death threats for controversial opinion

(Newser) - Two Oxford bioethicists are taking heat for their assertion that there is nothing morally wrong with infanticide—or, as they call it, "after-birth abortion." In an article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics , Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that babies, like fetuses, are only "potential...

Boy, 10, Escaped Hudson Mom's Van by Window

Mother drove minivan into Hudson River, killing herself, 3 kids

(Newser) - Tough new details are emerging in the story of the 25-year-old mother who killed herself and three of her children by driving a minivan into the Hudson River . It turns out that the lone survivor, 10-year-old Lashaun Armstrong, escaped by opening a power window and climbing out after his mother...

Mom: I Killed My Kids for Being 'Mouthy'

Tampa Army wife arrested after her 2 teens shot to death

(Newser) - Julie Schenecker's kids "talked back, they were mouthy and she was tired of it," Tampa police say, so the 50-year-old Army wife shot son Beau, 13, twice in the head on the way home from soccer practice. With her dead son in the car, Schenecker says she drove...

Beau Drives Into House, Kills Girlfriend, Newborn

Eduardo Villarreal had been battling with his girlfriend over custody

(Newser) - An angry Los Angeles man deliberately drove his car through the wall of his teenage girlfriend's bedroom as she slept on Sunday, killing her and the couple's 10-day-old baby girl, police said. Eduardo Villarreal, 21, was arrested at the scene and held on suspicion of murder. The couple had been...

Michele Kalina, Pennsylvania Nurse's Aide, Charged With Murder of 5 Babies
Mom Charged With Murder
of 5 Babies
Oct 26, 2010 5:52 AM CDT

Mom Charged With Murder of 5 Babies

Pa. woman hid pregnancies from husband and lover

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania woman successfully concealed five pregnancies from both her husband and the man she was having an affair with before killing the infants and hiding their bodies, say prosecutors. Nurse's aide Michele Kalina has been charged with criminal homicide in the deaths of the babies, whose remains were found...

We Need to Revisit All 'Shaken Baby' Convictions
We Need to Revisit All 'Shaken Baby' Convictions
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Sep 25, 2010 8:00 AM CDT

We Need to Revisit All 'Shaken Baby' Convictions

Science is casting doubt on diagnosis

(Newser) - The medical community continues to find evidence that 'shaken baby syndrome' is too often diagnosed. The problem is that the legal community continues to convict and imprison parents and baby-sitters. "Increasingly, it appears that a good number of the people charged with and convicted of homicide may be innocent,...

Cops ID Owner of Trunk With Dead Babies

Name Janet Mann Barrie, Peter Pan link ruled out

(Newser) - Police investigating the mummified remains of two babies wrapped in newspapers from the '30s and found in a Los Angles basement have made a breakthrough: The trunk the bodies were found in belonged to Scottish-born nurse Janet Mann Barrie, investigators say. She was employed for decades by George and Mary...

Clues in 1930s Baby-Mummies Case Point to Peter Pan Link

One suspect related to author JM Barrie

(Newser) - Police investigating the two mummified babies found in an LA basement have hit on a curious, but unlikely, person-of-interest. Medical forms found in the same trunk as the bodies refer to a woman named Jean M. Barrie, who was, it seems, a local nurse. But it’s also possible, sources...

Dead Babies From 1930s Found in LA Cellar

Two newborns found wrapped in newspapers, inside trunks

(Newser) - The bodies of two infants hidden more than 70 years ago were discovered in an LA basement near MacArthur Park. The infants were newborns, found at the bottom of steamer trunks and wrapped in newspapers from the 1930s. "We got all excited because the first thing we found was...

Mom Admits Suffocating Her 2 Toddlers
Mom Admits Suffocating
Her 2 Toddlers
Aug 17, 2010 12:33 PM CDT

Mom Admits Suffocating Her 2 Toddlers

Unemployed woman felt she had no way to support them

(Newser) - A South Carolina mother has admitted to smothering her two toddler sons, saying she didn’t think she could support them, according to police. The bodies were found in a car submerged in a river, but the woman, 29-year-old Shaquan Duley, allegedly told police that they were dead before she...

Mom Stashed 4 Babies in Suitcases

Dutch woman admit she killed newborns

(Newser) - A 25-year-old Dutch woman has admitted she gave birth to four babies, then put them in suitcases that she stored in her parents' house. The woman was arrested after a neighbor contacted police because he "thought it was strange she had some suspicious pregnancies," CNN reports. The woman...

WTF Is Pregnancy Denial?
 WTF Is Pregnancy Denial? 
Jul 30, 2010 4:11 AM CDT

WTF Is Pregnancy Denial?

Condition may be factor in baby killings

(Newser) - It's a good question. Why, asks Bruce Crumley in TIME , are French women killing their babies ? It may have something to do with a little known, "quasi-schizophrenic" phenomenon called "pregnancy denial," he finds. Women with this condition "either don't realize or cannot accept that they...

Frenchwoman Admits Smothering Her 8 Newborns

She says husband never knew

(Newser) - A 47-year-old woman in France faces homicide charges after admitting that she killed eight of her own newborn babies and hid them at two separate residences, the BBC reports. Dominique Cottrez told police that her husband never knew because she has always been overweight. He has not been charged. The...

Couple Busted After 8 Dead Newborns Found

French parents seemed utterly 'pleasant'

(Newser) - A couple in a northern French village have been arrested after police uncovered the remains of eight newborns in their home and nearby. A neighbor alerted cops after spotting bones as he dug a pond in his yard at a home where the two used to live. The couple, both...

Trial Begins for French Mom Who Killed 6 Newborns

Lawyer: She has 'no idea why she did it'

(Newser) - A mom who killed 6 of her newborn babies and stashed their corpses in her cellar has begun trial in one of the most notorious cases in French history. Céline Lesage, 38, faces life in prison for choking the infants to death. She has confessed to the charges, but...

Casey Anthony Will Face Death Penalty

Defense argued sentence violated accused baby-killer's rights

(Newser) - Casey Anthony is eligible to face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder, a Florida judge ruled today. Her lawyers had asked that execution be taken off the table in her trial for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, arguing that if the prosecution sought the death penalty,...

Brit Dad Busted in Kids' Death

Mom found children unresponsive after visit with father

(Newser) - A man separated from his wife was arrested yesterday after his two young children were found unresponsive in his home and were later declared dead. Police believe the father strangled the girl, 4, and 2-year-old boy, reports the Telegraph. They were discovered by their mom, who arrived to collect the...

Let's Heed Moms' Warning Signs
 Let's 
 Heed 
 Moms' 
 Warning Signs 
analysis
Aug 1, 2009 4:13 PM CDT

Let's Heed Moms' Warning Signs

(Newser) - It’s easy to demonize Otty Sanchez, the Texas mother who allegedly killed and ate parts of her weeks-old son, but the case suggests “some steps we as a society should be taking to support new mothers,” Karen Houppert writes in Salon. Even the medical community is ignorant...

Cannibal Mom Diagnosed With Schizophrenia, Depression

Decapitated baby's dad wants 'ultimate price'

(Newser) - Otty Sanchez, the Texas 33-year-old who confessed to stabbing, decapitating, skinning, and eating portions of her newborn son, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis before Sunday’s slaying, the San Antonio Express-News reports. She’s been charged with capital murder, and is currently in hospital under 24-hour surveillance....

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