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A CASE OF NEONATICIDE WITH HOMICIDAL DEFENESTRATION OF THE CHILD
Dr. Bernat-Noël Tiffon Nonis
KEYWORDS: PERSONALITY DISORDER, FILICIDE, NEONATICIDE, HOMICIDE.
1. Introduction.
When a parent kills their own child, it is known as filicide. Such a criminological situation always originates great social, legal, and media impact.
For Calzada et al., they consider "as neonaticide the death of a child in the first 24 hours".
2.Case.
It concerns a 19-year-old woman who, as drafted and as stated in the body of the sentence, the proven facts were as follows:
(...) "...at an unspecified time, but between the afternoon and the evening, she gave birth in the bathroom of her home to a female baby that came to breathe autonomously; and immediately after the birth, she threw it out of the bathroom window that overlooks an inner courtyard of the property from a height of 74.97 feet. As a result, the newborn suffered severe polytrauma with the destruction of vital brain centers, which caused her death".
3. Discussion
From the legal point of view and as stated in the sentence, the Jury considered as proven that the baby was thrown and defenestrated by the defendant from the window.
From the psychological point of view, and as a result of the psychometric examination carried out, the personality profile of the victim is compatible with a personality characterized by an acute and singular fragility, weak and sensitive psychoemotional instability, avoidant-dependent-melancholic, which weakens in situations interpreted subjectively and paranoidly as critical and/or acute.
4. Conclusion.
We describe a singular case of neonaticide of a young mother with a dysfunctional personality and suffering from an acute psycho-emotional instability.
It is difficult to describe psychologically what was the mother's will to perpetrate the acts since only the victim knows what her most intrinsic motives were.
As it is clear from the sentence, all the experts who testified regarding the psychological state of the victim agreed that the victim did not present any type of serious mental disorder for which she could benefit from an exonerating circumstance or an attenuation of the criminological penalty. Thus, and following the ruling of the sentence, this meant the consideration of being the responsible author of the crime of murder with the aggravating circumstance of kinship to the penalty of twenty years of imprisonment.
Likewise, in order to develop preventive strategies in cases of neonaticides and filicides, it is notoriously difficult to establish and apply due to the heterogeneous dynamics between the perpetrator and the victim (Florence & cols. 2021).
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Title A CASE OF NEONATICIDE WITH HOMICIDAL DEFENESTRATION OF THE CHILD
A CASE OF NEONATICIDE WITH HOMICIDAL DEFENESTRATION OF THE CHILD
Dr. Bernat-Noël Tiffon Nonis
KEYWORDS: PERSONALITY DISORDER, FILICIDE, NEONATICIDE, HOMICIDE.
1. Introduction.
When a parent kills their own child, it is known as filicide. Such a criminological situation always originates great social, legal, and media impact.
For Calzada et al., they consider "as neonaticide the death of a child in the first 24 hours".
2.Case.
It concerns a 19-year-old woman who, as drafted and as stated in the body of the sentence, the proven facts were as follows:
(...) "...at an unspecified time, but between the afternoon and the evening, she gave birth in the bathroom of her home to a female baby that came to breathe autonomously; and immediately after the birth, she threw it out of the bathroom window that overlooks an inner courtyard of the property from a height of 74.97 feet. As a result, the newborn suffered severe polytrauma with the destruction of vital brain centers, which caused her death".
3. Discussion
From the legal point of view and as stated in the sentence, the Jury considered as proven that the baby was thrown and defenestrated by the defendant from the window.
From the psychological point of view, and as a result of the psychometric examination carried out, the personality profile of the victim is compatible with a personality characterized by an acute and singular fragility, weak and sensitive psychoemotional instability, avoidant-dependent-melancholic, which weakens in situations interpreted subjectively and paranoidly as critical and/or acute.
4. Conclusion.
We describe a singular case of neonaticide of a young mother with a dysfunctional personality and suffering from an acute psycho-emotional instability.
It is difficult to describe psychologically what was the mother's will to perpetrate the acts since only the victim knows what her most intrinsic motives were.
As it is clear from the sentence, all the experts who testified regarding the psychological state of the victim agreed that the victim did not present any type of serious mental disorder for which she could benefit from an exonerating circumstance or an attenuation of the criminological penalty. Thus, and following the ruling of the sentence, this meant the consideration of being the responsible author of the crime of murder with the aggravating circumstance of kinship to the penalty of twenty years of imprisonment.
Likewise, in order to develop preventive strategies in cases of neonaticides and filicides, it is notoriously difficult to establish and apply due to the heterogeneous dynamics between the perpetrator and the victim (Florence & cols. 2021).
Work type Education, Informative
Tags psicometria forense, psicologia forense, crime, psicopatología forense, criminal psychology, forensic psychology, asesinatos, forensic, evaluación psicológica, forensic psychometry, criminología, derecho penal, psicologia criminal, psicología forense y legal
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