3-Month-Old Dies After Mother Strikes Baby's Head Repeatedly With Remote Control For Crying

A mother in Egypt allegedly killed her baby by striking the infant's head repeatedly with a remote control because she could not get him to stop crying.

According to local media reports, the authorities said the baby died on the spot as a result of blunt force trauma. When the 26-year-old mother realized the baby was dead, she fled the scene.

The incident came to light when the child’s 44-year-old father returned home from work and found him lying in a pool of blood in the living room. The child was motionless and his wife was missing. The man then notified the police, and a manhunt was launched for the woman. Later, the police located the woman and took her into custody, the Gulf News reported.

During questioning, the woman admitted to killing her baby.

“On the day of the incident, I was washing our clothes and while carrying my baby, we slipped on a wet floor, which caused the baby to cry. I tried to calm him down but to no avail. This got on my nerves and prompted me to hit him repeatedly with the remote control on his forehead, leading to his death,” the mother said in her confession, according to Alsumaria.tv.[Google Translate showed].

The charges against the woman have not been revealed. She was accused of intentionally killing her baby and will be referred to public prosecution.

In a similar incident last year in India, a father strangled his one and a half-year-old daughter to death for crying continuously. Local media reports said at the time the 40-year-old man was angry as his child would not stop crying. He threw the child on the ground and strangled her to death. The child's mother was at the scene when the incident took place. When she spotted her husband strangling the child, she shouted and alerted the neighbors, who arrived at the house and caught the accused. They reportedly thrashed him before handing him over to police. "My husband loved both our children. I cannot explain the reason why he took such a step," Babita, the wife of the accused, told the police at the time.