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The harsher verdicts imposed on two child mothers shows why the UK’s law of infanticide remains so important, more than a century after it was introduced
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The women may be different, but the pattern is the same. The crime of killing a baby less than 24 hours after it is born is called “neonaticide,” and “Baby June” -- the infant found floating in the Boynton Beach Inlet -- is only the most recent example of a story that dates back centuries.
Haringey council, which dismissed hospital fears to let a severely depressed mother take her newborn home before she killed her, has apologised and launched a serious case review.
Lily-Mai Saint George died from a serious head injury and had also suffered 18 rib fractures, two breaks in her leg and severe bruising at the hands of her mother Lauren Saint George, 25 (pictured).
In her attempt to convey the obscene message that Judaism supports unlimited abortion on demand, Beth Salamon wrote a despicable op-ed article that defends “reproductive freedom” as a Jewish value.