This is quite common with hamsters as they are extremely territorial. Your hamster probably thought that its children will encroach on its home in the future and that's why it rejected and killed them. Hamsters are actually vicious, don't let the fat fur ball fool you.

This reminds me of the FML of the person with two cats and one cat got jealous when the other cat had kittens and ate them. A lot of cannibalism lately.

I would imagine that would be traumatizing for ANY child to see...

Holy shet

Hamsters will sometimes eat them if they are unable to take care of the babies, or if there is something wrong that would inhibit (Don't know if that's spelled right) the young's ability to survive. Or the mother hamster was underfed, or, as said before, thought the babies would be future competition for her.

It is not uncommon for this to happen, especially with certain species that are caged up. If you ever suspect or are aware of your hamster being pregnant again, you and your family should keep an eye on her as close as possible to prevent this from happening again.

"Hamster meat, Hamster meat there's not anything that tastes so sweet! I had some babies for a tasty treat When I have some more, them too I'll eat!" The Ballad of OP's Hamster

why the **** would you let your hamster get babies anyway? you must have known thats a stupid idea

I was like, 5 or 6 when my hamster had 10 babies. 2 of them died and she started eating on them. I looked at them, looked at my mother. Not at all disgusted, I asked, "Why is she trying to put them back in her tummy?" I think I was a morbid little kid.... BTW we had bought her and were told she had not been around male hamsters. So we didn't even know she was pregnant at the time. When they were born, I told mom that we had a married hamster.

I've dealt with tons of mommy hams eating her young (I work in a petstore) this is normal. Luckily my ham didn't do anything like that to her two.