Female Perpetrators of Ritually Motivated Pedicide and Mutilation of Children

Ritually motivated pedicide is among contemporary Africa’s most severe crimes against children. Most of these involve brutal acts violence or mutilation the victim. While men are often perpetrators violent crimes, ritually and equally attract women. The role women in not restricted to less aspects crimes; instead, they also extend elements, involving mutilation, decapitation outright murder This article explored involvement that target children for pedicide. draws on case examples incidents brutality by selected from academic reports media non-governmental organisations demonstrate nature crimes. demonstrates engage serious roles with without company mutilation. These include who used rituals. author argues high degree means deviate established female patterns aggression typically violent.