::My comment wasn't to say that the law should adhere to common sense.  Depending on what country's law you are referring to, I think that most Western legal systems are based upon legitimate forms of reason but that is neither here nor there.  Again, the point is that if someone is killed by someone else - as proven in this case by autopsy - then we know that a murder occurred.  We do not, however, know who committed the murder.  Thus the inclusion of the children in the murder categories is entirely appropriate as long as they do not make an assertion of who murdered them.