Parents are murdering their kids and it isn't getting the attention that it should.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/23/children.dead.ap/index.html
Jim Junior Nice, 33, was charged Thursday with three counts of first-degree murder. Fatally poisoned were 6-year-old twins, Justin and Spencer, and a 2-year-old girl, Raquel Anna.
Divorce records show Jim and Leslie Nice lost custody of the children after the 2004 drowning death of a fourth child, 22-month-old Ian Nice, in a ditch at a local park.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/content.cfm?content_type=article&content_type_id=7612
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· In 1999 351 kids under 5 were killed by a parent!
· this is a more prevalent problem than people think.
· It happens in families where there's no history of violence.
A father of 4 killed his kids and himself by driving over the edge of a cliff, and a father is charged because he killed his 6 kids and set the house on fire. All this happened in March 2002.
June, 2004 In Warsaw, Poland --A husband and wife murdered their four children, whose mummified bodies were found in barrels at their family's apartment.
June, 2003 a young couple in Texas strangled and then decapitated their three young children. Children under the age of 5 in the United States are more likely to be killed by their parents than by anyone else. FBI crime stats show that in 1999 parents were responsible for 57% of these murders. Even though women commit less than 13% of all violent crime, they are responsible for about 50% of all parental murders.
Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison for strapping her two toddler sons into her car, then pushing it into a South Carolina lake. For nine days, Smith maintained a web of deceit wherein she made a nationally televised plea for the return of her children, after claiming they'd been taken by a black carjacker. It was finally found out Smith had drowned the boys after her new lover said they had no future together because he didn't want children.
As a mother of 3 children I just don't understand how this happens. Any thoughts, suggested research material? comments?