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Forensic Science & Addiction Research

Neonatal Line as a Tool to Investigate Neonaticide Cases - A Review of its Genesis and Structure Mini Review

  • Open or Close Sankeerti Mala Bonda*

    Department of Oral Pathology, Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Memorial Health Sciences and Ayush University of Chhattisgarh, India

    *Corresponding author: Sankeerti Mala Bonda, Department of Oral Pathology, Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Memorial Health Sciences and Ayush University of Chhattisgarh, India

Submission: February 12, 2018; Published: February 19, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/FSAR.2018.02.000542

ISSN: 2578-0042
Volume2 Issue4

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The death of a child is always a distressing event. When the child is a much wanted infant who dies close to birth, the loss is particularly poignant. There are, however, situations in which it is clear that the infant has died at the hands of an adult, usually the mother. In this case, the death is termed neonaticide, the killing of a newborn, as defined in the seminal paper by Resnick. The expression is usually applied when the death occurs within 24 hours of birth, although this definition can be flexible. It is this flexibility that sometimes causes disagreement over the status of the issue amongst forensic practitioners, and the subsequent difficulty of determining incidences and reasons for death and comparisons across cultures [1].

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