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    Parents Who Kill: Shocking True Stories of the World's Most Evil Parents

    By Carol Anne Davis

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    From the author of Children Who Kill and Women Who Kill, an exploration of why parents do the unthinkable Maria Colwell, Jasmine Beckford, "Baby P"—every time a child dies violently, the public reels at the suggestion that a parent may have been involved. Carol Anne Davis seeks to answer the question of how the protective instinct sometimes fails and why some parents fatally harm their own children. Examining the tragic phenomena of infanticide and child murder, she explores cases of neglected or abused children who grow up to batter their own babies, religious and sexual taboos which lead to so called "honor killings," as well as the processes of score-settling in relationships, postnatal depression, psychosis, and many other murder triggers. The cases include the most recent and harrowing case of Mick and Mairead Philpott who killed six of their children in an arson attack on their own house.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Blake
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781782197409
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    Parents Who Kill: Shocking True Stories of the World's Most Evil Parents
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    Carol Anne Davis

    CAROL ANNE DAVIS was born in Dundee, moved to Edinburgh in her twenties and now lives in the south of England. She left school at fifteen and was everything from an artist`s model to an editorial assistant before going to university. Her MA degree included criminology and was followed by a postgraduate diploma in Adult and Community Education. She is an expert on true-crime and is the author of the bestselling '...Who Kill' series.

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    • 1/5
      While there are a large number of cases of infanticide presented in this book there is no evidence of any authoritative research, particularly in the more recent cases, other than what is already in the public arena. I found the author's negative comments toward the perpetrators to be judgemental and unprofessional, which over time became extremely irritating. It would be much more effective to allow readers to come to conclusions themselves. On the whole, this was a very disappointing read
    • 5/5
      When I was a young girl I had a classmate that always smelled,hair was messy and oily,clothes dirty and she never failed to bring this suitcase filled with toys and things from her home with her to school. At the time, being so young, I didn't understand. One day I asked her why do you bring a suitcase to school? I will never forget her answer she told me in case someone wanted to take her home and love her she would have all her things ready and could go with them right away.(can you say WOW!!!! ) I went home and asked my mom what she meant and she told me not all children had good loving homes where they were safe and wanted. As I aged I never forgot her and eventually social work is what I became interested in. I think a part of me always wanted to find that little girl a loving home.This book brought tears to my eyes just as the "suitcase girl" does every time I think back to her.

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