Did Spartans Throw Babies off Cliffs?

The ancient historian Plutarch claimed these “ill-born” Spartan babies were tossed into a chasm at the foot of Mount Taygetus, but most historians now dismiss this as a myth. If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned on a nearby hillside.

What did Spartans do to deformed babies?

The Spartans used to dispose of “imperfect” or weak babies by throwing them off of Mount Taygetus into a pit.

Who threw babies off cliffs?

Adam Slater, 49, was arrested Thursday night in connection with a sequence of events the previous day that included two separate stabbing attacks culminating in a rollover car crash on Highway 74 near the community of Pinyon Crest, where he allegedly threw his one-year-old daughter, Madalyn, over "a steep cliff into a ...