Infanticide

"I put my hand over his mouth to put him to sleep."

NYPD investigators are questioning a woman after a two-year-old boy was found unconscious and unresponsive at a midtown hamburger restaurant today.

Before she confessed, the News reports mother Afriyie Gaspard blamed her 7-year-old daughter for the death of 2-year-old Izayah Hall, repeatedly telling police the 7-year-old "hit or choked" the baby.

This morning police arrested a Queens woman and charged her with murder and manslaughter in connection with the death of her two-year-old son.

Prosecutors say that he weighed down the toddler's car seat with a car jack.

In May 2010 Devi Silvia threw her 19-month-old baby into the Hudson in a botched murder-suicide attempt. Prosecutors are now prepared to offer her the chance to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has charged a West Philadelphia doctor

Newark resident Oquan Blake was arrested for allegedly raping and killing

The police arrested a man for abusing his 8-month-old son to death.

A homeless Bronx teenager charged with killing her newborn child, and the

A bookkeeper for a Manhattan printing company pleaded not guilty to killing

A mother discovered a horrible scene when she returned home from shopping