Postpartum mental disorder could be used as a legal defense for women who kill their children under a bill introduced in the Legislature. The bill was filed this month by Rep. Jessica Farrar, ...

Paris Mayo gave birth to her son Stanley alone – at home, in silence, while her parents and brother were upstairs. Mayo claimed not to have known she was pregnant, and no one at her school or within ...

An international team of scientists has shed light on cannibalism and infanticide carried out by primates, documenting these acts for the first time in the mustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax). The ...

Nothing surprises me anymore, is a frequent refrain as the culture unravels. Yet, we still can be caught by surprise at the rapid descent into depravity. For instance, we did not expect such a ...

A paper by two bioethicists arguing for “after-birth abortion” has stirred up a debate, to say the least (here’s an earlier post about it). I asked Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton ...

There is a little-known battle for survival going in some parts of the world. Those at risk are baby girls, and the casualties are in the millions each year. The weapons being used against them are ...

An FBI complaint alleges an Epstein victim said her newborn was killed in 1984 and dumped in Lake Michigan. Trump is named as ...

A WOMAN has admitted she killed her daughter but her lawyers say she’s guilty of a crime no Victorian has ever been jailed for. According to a summary of her police interview from that day, which was ...

Editor's note: This story is about infanticide — the killing of a newborn baby — and includes graphic descriptions of that practice. We had to pass two strictly-manned, massive gates to access the ...

Heather Montgomery does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...