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‘It becomes clear that filicide is incorporated into his conception of virtue.’
‘It is not surprising that filicide, the killing of a child by a parent, provokes strong feelings.’
‘No, it wasn't this kind of filicide or mother killing her children.’
‘We have known from the outset that a proportion of the deaths were technically filicide.’
‘He claimed that 80% of infant deaths were probably due to recognisable medical causes which doctors had failed to diagnose, while a further one in ten were the result of infanticide or filicide.’
‘As shocking and deeply disturbing as such a crime might be, in reality filicide - the clinical term for child-killing by parents - is not as rare as you might think.’
‘Although the Canadian homicide rate in general has declined to its lowest level in 30 years, there has been significant increase in filicides.’
‘The very idea of filicide (the murder of a child by a parent) is abhorrent.’
‘In the past 15 years two American doctors have committed double filicide.’
‘The study included two families in which there were two CONI deaths, one triple SIDS and one triple filicide.’
‘But also, I don't rightly know how you stop mindless filicide; and there's a strong stench of inevitability and an anti-political helplessness hanging over the books.’
murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom