Moms Who Kill Their Kids
SAVE
February 28, 2024
SAVE has previously reported on mothers who attacked other women to steal their unborn babies. A more widespread problem is mothers who kill their children. Globally, 72% of infant murders are by their mothers.
Many of these cases occur in the middle of a custody dispute. These women apparently believed they “own” their children. These six cases, all in the United States, were reported in February, 2024:
1. Mom in custody battle kills four kids and herself in house fire, Missouri reports say
Pruessner was reportedly involved in court battles with the two fathers of her four children. Mom burned her kids to death rather than share custody with the father. She was a college professor.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article285780096.html#storylink=cpy
2. Kansas City mother is accused of killing her infant by putting her in the oven
The mother told the baby’s grandmother that she put the 1-month-old “in the oven instead of the crib,” according to court records.
3. Lilly mother accused of killing son
Bowser heard voices telling her to smother her 5-year-old child.
https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2024/02/lilly-mother-accused-of-killing-son/
4. Family reacts to deaths of 3-year-old twins, mother jumping off I-95
Officials haven’t released the identities of the children and the woman but family members identified the woman as 42-year-old Shirlene N. Alcime and the children as Milinddjy and Milender.
5. Mother arrested for murder after 4-year-old daughter found dead in Southern California
The cause of death was reported as ‘combined effects of strangulation and sharp force,’ according to the autopsy report.
https://abc7chicago.com/mia-gonzalez-maria-avalos-child-killed-strangulation/14366139/
6. Mum who left toddler alone in playpen for 10 days pleads guilty to aggravated murder
This wasn’t intentional homicide, but rather the most egregious negligent homicide imaginable.