neonaticide

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Etymology

From neonate +‎ -cide.

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Noun

neonaticide (countable and uncountable, plural neonaticides)

  1. The murder of a newborn within 24 hours of birth.
    • 2007 February 4, Cara Buckley, “Brooklyn Girl Threw Away Her Newborn Son, Police Say”, in New York Times‎:
      But critics of the law said mothers who immediately kill their babies after giving birth, a practice known as neonaticide, are usually in deep denial about their pregnancies.
  2. The murderer of a newborn (anyone who practices or who has practiced this kind of murder).

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