Filicide-suicide by hanging involving an autistic child: a rare case report

Shubha, SN, Hossain, S and Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, 2022. Filicide-suicide by hanging involving an autistic child: a rare case report. Journal of Concurrent Disorders, 4 (2), pp. 27-36. ISSN 2562-7546

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Abstract

Filicide-suicide is an area of growing interest in the field of forensic psychiatry. Using multiple media reports, the present report describes a case of filicide-suicide in Bangladesh in which a 55-year-old father killed his 14-year-old autistic son by hanging, and then hung himself. The main reason for the suicide appeared to be depression and stress as a result of severe financial problems. A case of filicide-suicide case involving an autistic child has never been reported in Bangladesh, and filicide-suicide by hanging is extremely rare.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Concurrent Disorders
Creators:	Shubha, S.N., Hossain, S. and Griffiths, M.D.
Publisher:	Concurrent Disorders Society
Date:	2022
Volume:	4
Number:	2
ISSN:	2562-7546
Identifiers:	Number Type 1522098 Other
Rights:	©2022 Shubha, N.S., Hossain, S., and Griffiths, M.D. Licensee CDS Press, Toronto, Canada. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	01 Mar 2022 15:30
Last Modified:	09 Dec 2022 14:33
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45777

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