Female Infanticide: The Innocence Murdered Again

Infanticide refers to the deliberate killing of a child below one year of age. Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females. The killing may be consequent to active infanticide in which the means like fatal injuries& poisonings are the direct & immediate cause of death, & passive infanticide which involve the indirect causes like sustained nutritional deprivation. The crime of infanticide is generally committed at the time of or within a few minutes or hours after the birth of the child. In many cases the child has obvious injury marks & other external findings that rule out accidents and confirms that a homicide has occurred beyond a reasonable doubt. In other cases the evidence is not obvious and there might simply be a suspicion that an infanticide has occurred. Here we are representing a case of female infanticide in which the innocent female infant was murdered brutally by inflicting fatal contusions all over her body.