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Psychiatry's Phillip Resnick describes the factors behind neonaticide

MEDIA | June 20, 2019
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

After capture of alleged 'Geauga's Child' murderer, expert explains psychology of why some women kill newborns:

WKYCPhillip Resnick, professor of psychiatry, was acknowledged for coining the term “neonaticide” and said his study of infant deaths at the hands of their mothers showed “the most common reason is that the baby is unwanted.”