Homicide In The Shafia Family In Canada

The Family violence do not discriminated any race or age. This subject has many branches, but let us focuses in the branch of family homicides. What is a family homicide? Homicide means the action of killing another person. There are different types of homicides that happened in a family, for example, “Infanticide means the killing of a child by a parent”. (Bartol, 2014). The infanticide is when a woman kills her child that it is less than one year old. The reason why she kills it could be because she does not wanted to have the baby or the baby has a physic disability. This type of homicide could be similar to neonaticide that is when the mother kills the newborn that have less than 24 hours. In some cultures, killing their child is something normal, for example, in Middle East culture the honor homicides are considering something normal. The females are the ones who suffer more with this issue, for example, the case of Shafia family in Ontario Canada. “The Shafia Family murders took place on June 30, 2009 in Kingston, Ontario. Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Rona Amir Mohammed, 50, were found dead inside a car that was discovered underwater in front of the northernmost Kingston Mills lock of the Rideau Canal on the same day”. (wikipedia, 2012). This example …show more content…
“Guy Turcotte has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his two young children. Turcotte’s children were stabbed 46 times and found in their beds with wounds to their upper bodies – Olivier was attacked 27 times and Anne-Sophie another 19. Autopsy results showed the boy tried to defend himself from the attack. Turcotte’s marriage to his then-estranged wife, Isabelle Gaston, ended once the latter’s infidelity had been exposed”. (Marin, 2015) Turcotte tried to commit suicide by drinking wipe washer, but he survives to his attempt. This is a great example about how conjugal issues can turn in crime against