Child Sacrifice

Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please, propitiate or force a god or supernatural beings in order to achieve a desired result. As such, it is a form of human sacrifice.

Homicide
Murder

Note: Varies by jurisdiction

  • Assassination
  • Child murder
  • Consensual homicide
  • Contract killing
  • Felony murder rule
  • Honor killing
  • Human sacrifice (Child)
  • Lust murder
  • Lynching
  • Mass murder
  • Murder–suicide
  • Proxy murder
  • Pseudocommando
  • Lonely hearts killer
  • Serial killer
  • Spree killer
  • Torture murder
  • Feticide
  • Double murder
  • Misdemeanor murder
  • Crime of passion
  • Internet homicide
  • Depraved-heart murder
Manslaughter
  • in English law
  • Negligent homicide
  • Vehicular homicide
Non-criminal homicide

Note: Varies by jurisdiction

  • Justifiable homicide
  • Capital punishment
  • Human sacrifice
  • Feticide
  • Medicide
  • War
By victim or victims
  • Suicide
Family
  • Familicide
  • Avunculicide
  • Prolicide (Filicide, Infanticide, Neonaticide)
  • Fratricide
  • Sororicide
  • Mariticide
  • Uxoricide
  • Parricide (Matricide, Patricide)
Other
  • Friendly fire
  • Genocide
  • Democide
  • Gendercide
  • Omnicide
  • Regicide
  • Tyrannicide
  • Pseudocide
  • Deicide

Read more about Child Sacrifice:  Prehistoric Britain, Uganda, Controversy

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