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The night before his seventh birthday, William and his sister Anna, aged three, were put to bed as usual by their mother. Their parents were living apart and their mother was seeking a divorce. On the birthday morning, the children were awakened by their father who told them that their mother had left them and would not be coming back. He took the children to his parents’ home for that day and afterward cared for them until he was arrested some days later for the alleged murder of their mother. He had buried her body on wasteland.
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Black, D., Kaplan, T., Hendriks, J.H. (1993). Father Kills Mother. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_47
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