Sentence:  For almost two months , the defendant and the world heard from individuals escaped from the grave about fathers and <WSD>mothers</WSD> , graybeards , adolescents , babies , starved , beaten to death , strangled , machine-gunned , gassed , burned . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)