Infanticide \In*fan"ti*cide\, n. [L. infanticidium child murder; infans, -antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See {Infant}, and {Homicide}.] The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
Infanticide \In*fan"ti*cide\, n. [L. infanticida: cf. F. infanticide.] One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.
A judge today found an obstetrician guilty of infanticide on grounds that a fetus taken during an abortion on a 13-year-old was alive instead of stillborn as the doctor claimed.