I was getting ready to post this. Thank you for posting it.
Heartbreaking.
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let's start with defining some terms. So we always talk about we talk a lot about filicide.
Filicide is when a parent murders a child. So typically filicide could be any age,
right? It could be the ones we talk about are mostly children that are not babies, children that are over a
year old. And so we deal a lot with filicide.
So Lori Vallow would be an example of filicide.
And maybe I should maybe I should jump in
here just in case nobody knows you are a criminal psychologist. Oh, clinical psychologist, forensic
psychologist. Yeah. Um, beyond just being my co-host. So, okay, keep going on.
Filicide. Yes.
Yeah, that might be good to know. People may not know that. Um, so yeah, I have I
have a lot of experience talking about felons, criminals, violent criminals,
sexual offenders, all that. I've done groups, evaluations. I've served as an
expert many times in many different ways at the federal and state level. So
filicide is when a parent murders a child. Typically that would be defined
as anywhere between the ages of birth to 18 when they would be considered an
adult. Then there's something called infanticide. Infanticide is when a child
is murdered in the first year of life. And then there's something even more
specific, something that we haven't actually talked about until now.
So this will be our first time actually talking
about in depth about neonaticide. Neonaticide. So a neonate
is a baby in the first four weeks. So a neonate is a child that's been alive for
a month. So, but neonaticide is murder that occurs in the first 24
hours of birth. And one of the things about neonaticide is
that it's widely believed that neonaticide is tremendously
underestimated for many many reasons.
you know that obviously a child at birth is extremely vulnerable and extremely small and so
there's many cases. The most common cause of death in neonaticide is
suffocation, right? There's many ways probably to suffocate a baby that
wouldn't necessarily be considered neonaticide.
There's a high percentage of SIDS cases
that are determined to be neonaticide. So roughly 10% of SIDS cases, so sudden
infant SIDS is sudden infant death syndrome, but it's it's believed that
many more cases of SIDS are probably neonaticide.
So, wow. Because babies are so vulnerable
and it's it's fairly easy to if if a if a pregnancy is concealed
as as it was with Laken Snelling, if his pregnancy is concealed, sadly, it's it's fairly easy to dispose
of the remains if nobody knows about it, right? It's it's fairly easy to dispose
of the remains of a baby in the sense that their bones
are softer. They degrade faster, right? They're they're smaller, so there's less remains to deal with
they're less babies are less conspicuous. They're easier to hide. There's so many ways in which
neonaticide is probably much more common than we realize. um from not only the
the way that babies are potentially murdered, but um in terms of dealing
with the remains and how to dispose of them so that they're not detected. It's just it's frightening.
So neonaticide is a murder typically in the first 24 hours after birth
