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ZKFS scientist Aileen Krumma in an MDR interview: Why mothers kill their babies? – “They are acts of desperation”

Mothers killing their babies is a very, very rare offense, say psychologists. But the public response to every infanticide is enormous. Aileen Krumma, a research associate at the Center for Criminal Research Saxony in Chemnitz, says that nobody knows how many such neonatal murders there really are. Why do mothers kill their babies? And what role do the father and social environment play?

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/mutter-totes-baby-toeten-psychologin-kriminalitaet-100.html

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