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As I detailed in my previous Lowdown article, America has a strange fixation with punishing individuals for exhibiting what it considers to be unusual sexual proclivities. Often, this punishment follows many decades after an offender has served their sentence. The state also turns a blind-eye to registry-assisted murders, which are are now so common, another has transpired since I wrote my article last month. But this hysteria has also seemingly taken a hold of American parents who seek to punish their own children for what they believe to be sexual "deviancy".

Indeed, when their misguided beliefs about sexuality get the better of their emotions, some parents cross a line you can’t come back from. Full disclosure, and content warning, these six horrifying cases, five of them from America, show how hysteria around children's supposed asexuality, and twisted ideas of sexual “shame” have led moms and dads to kill their own kids. Put together in one place, so we never forget.