I know such case of infanticide in Canada.. infanticide of unborn baby, which doesn't make it more excusable.. The family is originally from the ME. They had already 2 daughters. Father obviously wanted a son. So once the wife got pregnant next time, as soon as they could figure out that this is a girl again, the wife, according to her husband's order, intentionally provoked a miscarriage, in the later stage. I suspect they did it even twice, until they knew, that this time it's a son.. It's not only a pure infanticide, it also puts in real danger health and even life on mother.
Awful..