Infanticide

Infanticide in Europe

Definition of Infanticide

The killing of a newly-born child. The Infanticide Act, 1922, provides that where a woman causes the death of her newlyborn child before she has fully recovered from the effect of child-birth and while the balance of her mind is still disturbed, then she shall be guilty of infanticide and punishable as for manslaughter, if before the Act she might have been convicted of murder

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