Przestępstwa przeciwko zdrowiu i życiu – noworodki, niemowlęta i dzieci jako ofiary zabójstw
Crimes against health and life – the murder of newborns, infants and children as victims of crime

Summary/Abstract: The history of the murder of children, infants and newborns is as long as thehistory of world. From the moment when people began to create communities, therewere various types of crimes against members of the community. Infanticide in theprimitive period was a kind of act of necessity from the point of view of a social group.In this way, the number of individuals burdensome for this group was reduced by eli-minating weak or defective individuals, whose upbringing was an unacceptable burdenfor the group. Currently, crimes committed against children arouse the most negativefeelings in us and the perpetrators of such crimes can count on severe punishmentsand long sentences.The presented statistics from the Polish and from the USA show that childrenare very often victims of crimes. Depending on their age use to different methods ofpunishment and the murders. The same situation is about the person, who commit thecrime. On the first hours of life the newborn child the most often the abuser is themother. When the child is growing the abuser can be father, babysitter or his siblings.It is worth to notice that in Poland we have a lot of crimes detect, but not confirmedand brought to specific charges. The history of the murder of children, infants andnewborns is as long as the history of mankind, but the most disturbing is the factthat despite the advanced civilizational activity, the number of convicted people whocommit such an act is growing.

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