It is called infanticide, the intentional murder or homicide of a newborn infant or less than one year old. While the validity established to make the proclamation of the birth before the civil registry, is in the next three days after delivery. The mother who caused the infanticide will have a decrease in the sentence for benefit, since, in the complexity of the crime against people, infanticide is affected by that mother who, wanting to hide her disgrace, murders her newborn child. Similarly, maternal grandparents who commit the crime will be sentenced to a lesser penalty if it is for the same cause.
In many communities of the past it was allowed and practiced very openly, it was carried out in different cultures throughout the world. At present, it is thought of an immodest crime, however, it continues to be practiced. In many cultures, children are not appreciated as individuals until the customary rituals, such as giving a name or cutting their hair, are performed.
Infanticide occasionally occurs after the rituals have been performed and, therefore, for that kind of culture the murder of a child prior to the ritual is not considered a homicide.
The execution of infanticide has taken different forms. The sacrilege of children to omnipotences or supernatural forces, such as the one done in Carthage, as an offering to Moloch, was the most heard case in the ancient world. Regardless of its origins, the passing of legend infanticide has frequently existed.
Active or direct infanticide consists of killing the newborn voluntarily, with safe practices, such as death by suffocation, head trauma, dehydration or malnutrition. Passive or indirect infanticide begins with poor nutrition, neglect, abandonment, especially when the baby collapses sick.
There is no clear difference between abortion and infanticide, since when the woman has an unwanted pregnancy and is advanced between the sixth and seventh month, it causes the death of the fetus and is born without vital signs, it can be taken with infanticide.
