child killer

Slays the young

A child killer is someone who murders a child or children.

The term applies both to those who kill a single child and to serial killers who target children specifically.

It can also describe someone who was themselves a child when they committed murder, though "juvenile killer" is more precise for that sense.

The community was shocked to learn a child killer had been living among them.

Related

homicide · victim · innocent · tragedy · abduction · crime · crime scene · evil · hunt · manhunt · cold case · justice · prison · trial · death penalty · life sentence · sentence · grief

Categories
Opposites
harm vs. protection of children

child killerchild advocate

One representing minors' interests

foster parent · child welfare worker · guardian angel · adoptive parent · pediatrician

destroyer vs. giver of life

child killerlife giver

What creates existence

life-giver · mother · father · midwife · birth parent

moral status

child killersaint

Canonized holy person

hero · humanitarian · savior · martyr · Good Samaritan

Family

child, killer, children, childish, childlike, childhood, childless, childlessness, kill

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Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated R