101) Filicide-Case Report with Medico-Legal Comment
Author: Sompop Ruangtrakool
Year: 1976
Source: Journal of The Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol. 21, No. 1, January-March 1976, Page 9-24.
A case of filicide is reported. The mother had tried to murder her two children and attempted to take her own life by ingesting insecticide. Luckily, the four years old daughter and the patient survived, after intensive medical treatment. But her one and a half years old son died. The lacking of love and rejection by parents in her childhood; the chronic severe physical illness; the dysharmony in marriage and subsequently deserted by husband; are among the main contributing factors which caused ...