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foreign [Music] USA Today ran an article about parents who killed their children or philicide
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the article cites three decades of FBI homicide data that shows on average 450 children are killed every year by their
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parents Northeastern University criminologists Applied statistical models to the
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records USA Today analyzed the database for a detailed look at who kills who is killed and how
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several patterns are apparent the vast majority of child victims three out of four are under five years of age
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nearly half of all victims died from physical beatings or other injuries at the parents hands