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Four children were murdered by their parents implicit the play successful the Dominican Republic, constabulary said Monday successful the Caribbean country, which has suffered a spate of specified killings.
A 36-year-old pistillate surviving connected the outskirts of the superior Santa Domingo killed her 3 children aged seven, 9 and 11 by poisoning their effect foodstuff connected Sunday earlier taking her ain beingness by ingesting the liquid, constabulary said.
Officers recovered a handwritten enactment astatine the country believed to person been near by the pistillate but person not disclosed the contents.
On the aforesaid time successful the capital, a antheral was arrested connected suspicion of suffocating his toddler son, aged 1 twelvemonth and 8 months.
At slightest 2 different cases of suspected filicide -- erstwhile a genitor intentionally kills their kid -- person been reported connected the land of astir 11 cardinal inhabitants truthful acold this month.
A mates was arrested past week successful the capital, accused of causing the decease of a seven-year-old miss successful their care, who showed "signs of carnal maltreatment and barbarity," according to authorities.
Days earlier, connected August 11, a antheral allegedly hanged his two-year-old lad and past took his ain beingness successful the northeastern metropolis of Nagua.
According to a insubstantial published successful the National Library of Medicine, 90% of filicide cases worldwide impact biologic parents and 10% impact stepparents.
In the United States, astir 2.5% of each homicide arrests were for parents who killed their children, according to a 2014 analysis, which amounts to an mean of astir 500 filicide arrests each year. Filicides are believed to relationship for astir two-thirds of fatal kid maltreatment cases, according to the analysis.
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