PMID: 8583692Dec 1, 1995Paper

Retrospective investigation of medico-legal autopsy cases involving mentally handicapped individuals

Nihon hōigaku zasshi = The Japanese journal of legal medicine
T Kondo, T Ohshima

Abstract

Mentally handicapped individuals were involved in some way in 64 (17.7%) of the total of 362 medico-legal autopsy cases during the past 13 years. Among these 64 cases, 32 were suicides committed by mentally handicapped persons (18 males and 14 females). The most common method of suicide was drowning (65.6%). Five cases were homicides suddenly and unexpectedly committed by mentally handicapped persons. In four of the five cases, the victim was a member of the assailant's family; this was considered to be a characteristic of homicides committed by mentally handicapped persons. On the other hand, there was only one case in which a mentally handicapped person was victimized, that of a 34-year-old female with schizophrenia who was strangled by her mother. In 19 cases, infanticide was committed by mentally handicapped mothers ranging in age from 17 to 40 years old; approximately 80% of the infanticide victims were infants of less than 6 months, and this was the age range most at risk of victims. There were two cases involving either double suicide or murder followed by suicide; in one case, the 45-year-old mother of a mentally handicapped 18-year-old son with congenital hydrocephalus set fire to her own house, and both perished in th...Continue Reading

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