Horrific Infant Homicide in India

Indian, buried his six-day-old twin girls alive, considering their birth a sign of bad luck

An Indian buried his six-day-old twin girls alive, considering their birth a sign of bad luck. The incident took place in a village in Gujarat, a state in western India. The father, if we can call him that, was arrested by the Indian police. his act. Murder of little girls is a common practice in India, as is selective (albeit illegal) abortion. This is because in many countries, the birth of a boy is considered a blessing in contrast to the birth of a daughter, whom parents are obliged to endow in order to marry. The Indian government acknowledged last December that at least 10 million female infants had been murdered by their own parents in the past 20 years. At the same time, the easy access of the population to the method of ultrasound to determine the sex of the fetus has led to selective abortions, which tend to take the form of an epidemic.