I don't know if this has already been asked, but I'm curious about strangulation as a COD for a child under five years old.
How often is it a COD for a child in that age group, when its perpetrated on the child by a parent and not an accidental death?
What would it mean from a psych perspective? I read a Wikipedia page about strangulation in DV and I could kind of 'get' that (in the sense of getting into someone else's mind) but I don't understand turning that method onto a small child as a means of causing death.
I wonder if
@moonlessnight @stereopticons or
@Jmartinez0303 or
@MindHunter13 might have any insight on the second part of the question?
ETA What I was thinking was that we hear a lot of child deaths caused by beating, throwing a child against a wall, smothering, drowning, sometimes even stabbing or shooting. Some of these seem consistent with being done 'in rage', some of them seem to happen more in cases where there's some kind of psychotic break.
From reading the Wiki page on strangulation in DV I'm getting more of a sense that it's a tightly controlled thing, not a rage thing. Is that generally correct? How does that fit in with a possible COD of strangulation for children under-five?