Abstract

CALZADA REYES, A. et al. Filicide perpetrators': study of two cases. Cuad. med. forense [online]. 2014, vol.20, n.1, pp.15-25. ISSN 1988-611X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1135-76062014000100003.

Filicide is defined as the act of a parent killing her/his child. It is a complex situation that generates great impact and multiple social repercussions. We present two cases, both of the female gender of 23 and 32 years respectively that were evaluated in the Legal Medicine Institute on Havana, to be authors of the death of their children. In relation to the fact the first evaluated referred "my head had desires to make that I made, but that we left the 3 together, I attempted it but I was not able to", while the second affirmed that "she didn't know because it acted in that way". Results of the neuropsychological, electrophysiological and psychophysiological assessments are shown, and result to psychiatric evaluation. It is recommended to associate all these studies to the forensic clinical evaluation, to increase the objectivity of the diagnoses emitted by forensic experts.

Keywords : Filicide; Electroencephalogram; Neuropsychological assessment; Sympathetic skin response.

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