MetaFilter posts tagged with infanticide

World appears slightly less bad due to supply and demand

shothotbot — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:56:32 -0800

The government of Delhi is claiming success in reducing female infanticide by a recent scheme to pay the school fees of poor girls. (if you go through to read the article you might want to be reminded that a lakh is 100,000)

Is anyone out there? Does anyone copy?

sluglicker — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:19:19 -0800

A young girl is saved from being buried alive. NSFW Brazil, Amazon, Suruwaha Tribe: "Those crippled children get all the good meat while we only get bones. They can't speak or walk right. Evil spirits have stolen their souls. What have we done to anger the spirits? Those crippled children shouldn't have been born. And now we are cursed for allowing them to live." A film by David L. Cunningham. (Indigenous nudity)

The True Story of An American Tragedy

jonson — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:56:43 -0800

100 years ago last July, young Chester Gillette took his pregnant girlfriend Grace Brown boating in a lake in the Adironakes. Out on the water he clubbed her unconscious using a tennis racket he had brought along for the purchase, and threw her body overboard, drowning her & his unborn child. 100 years ago next March, he was put to death for the crime, which went on to become the basis for a great American novel, two movie adaptations (some would say three) & as befits a good tragedy, an opera. It's arguable that the soft lens of history plus the addition of the bias of the book & film adaptations have positioned Gillette in a kinder light than he deserves; his crime itself has never fallen out of vogue, sad to say.

The gay

brandz — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:51:49 -0800

Father kills toddler over gay fears a man has appeared in US court accused of killing his baby son because of an irrational fear that he would become gay.

Words fail me...

Irontom — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:50:53 -0800

Susan Smith needs pen pals. Remember the woman who killed her two sons by driving her car into a South Carolina lake while they were strapped into their car seats back in 1994? Well, she's 31 and looking for people who are "not judgemental" and "sincere". She's a Christian who enjoys attending church and loves "rainbows, Mickey Mouse, the beach, the mountains, and waterfalls."

dwivian — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:35:51 -0800

Kill your five children, go to jail. So, what to do to a mother that decides not to be a mother any more?

rcade — Sat, 05 Aug 2000 13:11:04 -0800

Mom who laughed as she threw child off 14th-floor balcony sentenced ... to five years in prison. I'm definitely committing all my murders in Scotland from now on.