Most child victims in 'family suicide' aged 12 or under: report

Some 86.5 percent of child victims in the "joint suicide of family," referring to a parent taking the lives of the other members of the family before killing themselves, are aged 12 or under, a recent South Korea study showed. A total of 163 minors were killed in 120 such cases between 2014 and 2024, as analyzed by researchers from the Inha University Law School. Eighty (49.1 percent) of the victims were aged 6-12 years old, 37 (22.7 percent) were 3-5 years old, 24 (14.7 percent) were infants 2

By The Korea Herald