Six women killed or attempted to kill their children during this year

Six women killed or attempted to kill their children during this year. Three of them killed their children before they passed from fetus to newborn stage, by this way reducing their sentence with almost 20 years. Head of Criminal Police division of MAI, Alexandru Ciobanu, told reporters that a short period after the moment of birth, the newborns are considered fetuses and the punishment for putting them to death is from 5 to 7 years of imprisonment. For killing a child afterwards the punishment is of 25 years of prison or even life sentence. According to Ciobanu, an awful case happened recently in Dubasarii Vechi. An 18 year old, who kept in secret her pregnancy, gave birth to a child in a corn field on October 27, covering the child with soil. Similar cases happened in Cahul and Calarasi. Two babies from Glodeni stayed alive only after the intervention of their relatives, the so called mothers being charged with murder attempt. A research conducted by the police in the cases of infanticides shows that almost a half of them take place in rural regions, the most used method is the suffocation and the majority of women are aged 17-20 and they are not married. The law stipulates that infanticide involves a mandatory special emotional state, caused by the effect of the birthing on the nervous and cardiovascular systems. Moreover, psychologists assert that after the birth, women have a special emotional period, caused by pains and unusual feelings, in some cases these feeling can almost totally reduce the capacity of women to control their actions, changing radical their behavior.