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Florida Parents Charged With Manslaughter in Newborn’s Homicide by Suffocation

Prosecutors cite a homicide ruling alongside an affidavit detailing staged evidence.

Lindsay Clancy Offers to Admit Killings to Seek Split Trial on Insanity

New Mexico Father Charged After Autopsy Indicates Infant Was Buried Alive

Mother Jailed for Life With 19-Year Minimum for Murder of Two-Month-Old Daughter

Peter Sayle Jailed for Nine Years and 11 Months for Killing Six-Week-Old Son Huxley

Thomas Morgan Convicted of Murdering Five‑Month‑Old Jensen‑Lee Dougal

Atlanta Mother Charged With Murder After Infant’s Death Ruled Alcohol-Related Homicide

Trial Opens for Parents Accused of Killing 5-Week-Old Daughter After Alleged Repeated Assaults

Murder Trial Opens Over Baby Darcy‑Leigh's Fatal Brain Injury and 47 Rib Fractures

Neighbor Testifies Baby 'Wasn't Choking' as Stepfather's Murder Trial Continues in Swansea

Parents Detained in Suspected Violent Death of 6-Month-Old in Ciudad Real

Father Who Murdered Newborn in Somerset Neonatal Unit Jailed for Life

Liverpool Father Gets Six-and-a-Half Years for Manslaughter of Baby Son

Trier Court Acquits Father in Baby’s Death After Finding Shaking Occurred in Emergency

Mother of Infant Killed by Father Confronts PTSD and Lack of Closure

Couple on Trial for Hospital Baby’s Death Walked Out During Resuscitation

Court Upholds 12-Year Sentence for Ex-Nanny in Hugo’s Shaken Baby Death

Kerala Mother Arrested for Allegedly Drowning Three-Year-Old Daughter in River

Mother Sentenced to 7.5 Years for Administering Opiate That Killed Her Infant

Mother Arrested for Throwing Infant Daughter from Balcony in Catania