Analysis Of Neonaticide Cases In Lithuania During 1994-2014 Forensic Psychiatric Examination Data

Volume 25, Number 5 (2015)

Vaiva Martinkienė, Algirdas Dembinskas, Arūnas Germanavičius Abstract Filicide is always as dramatically cruel act and is common opinion that it can be committed only by mentally ill person. All women, who committed neonaticide, undergoes forensic psychiatry examination in Lithuanian Forensic psychiatry service. During the period from 1994-2014 there were forensic psychiatry examinations were made to…