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Citation

Barros AJ, Rosa RG, Telles LE, Taborda JG. J. Forensic Sci. 2015; 61(1): 280-283.

Affiliation

Instituto Psiquiátrico Forense Maurício Cardoso, Avenida Diário de Notícias n 200, Room 909, PO Box 90810080, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.12873

PMID

26259153

Abstract

Neonaticide is an infant murder occurring on the day of birth. The case reports found in the literature are often focused on the mother as the agent in the context of pregnancy denial, dissociative symptoms, or psychosis. However, this report describes a rare case of attempted serial neonaticides, in which the acts were committed by a nurse at the nursery of a referral hospital in Brazil. The authors describe a forensic psychiatric evaluation for criminal responsibility and correlate the information from this particular case with relevant forensic themes, namely neonaticide, Munchausen by proxy syndrome, and serial healthcare killers.


Language: en

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