Sentences with filicide
fil·i·cide
F f - Ancient myth contains numerous examples of filicide.
- Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
- It is filicide with a twist, and accurate crime figures on its frequency are hard to come by.
- The study is believed to be the first to examine filicide in the context of separation and divorce.
- The most recent figures from the Australian Institute of Criminology show there were 22 cases of filicide nationwide between 2008 and 2010.
- There is a particular type of filicide (the killing of children by parents) that occurs in the context of the separation of the parents.
- She plans to build a novel defence around the behavioural concept of altruistic filicide.