Call for Hong Kong to set up registry of filicide cases to reduce killings
Police said they found blood stains on a pillow and in the mouth and nose of one of the girls. The mother was arrested after she and her brother alerted the force.
Last year, a debt-ridden father threw his seven-year-old son off the rooftop of a shopping centre before he jumped to his death, while the boy was critically injured.
Hong Kong has been repeatedly shocked by cases centred on parents allegedly trying to kill their children, with at least three recorded each year from 2020 to 2024, according to a count of reports by the Post.
Victims ranged from newborns to adult children who were intellectually or physically disabled.
In interviews with the Post, experts in health and social work called on the government to set up a registry to document and identify patterns in these tragedies, so authorities could devise measures to prevent future cases.
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