Posted on 11/23/2004 6:11:41 AM PST by mtbopfuyn
Thanks, I knew some knowledgeble FReeper out there would come through. 3 months sounds more reasonable.
I don't buy the PPD excuse either, there's something very wrong with this woman.
This is more than postpartum depression. And as mentioned in the article, she had shown psychotic symptoms before. Same story as Andrea Yates. There's obviously a huge problem, but everybody involved pretends there isn't, until it's too late.
I know if I were him, it would take all my will power to restrain myself from ripping her apart.
Reading stories like this, I can't help but think about what I would do if my wife were to do something on par with this to our kids. If ANYONE were to touch my kids, they better have a will already written out and notarized.
"I don't buy the "depression" cover, either. Depression makes mothers neglectful,uncaring. It would take alot to do to a baby at 11 months what this woman did."
They're using the term depression here, but I think post-partum psychosis would be the more correct term. They're not the same thing. If she'd been hospitalized for a psychotic episode, she never should've been left alone with those children. Crazy doesn't just go away with a few visits to a shrink.
"She is crazy and evil."
If she's not crazy, then she's evil. If she's crazy, then she's not evil.
I have been sick all morning thinking about this I wish I had not read it also.
Why did the dad call the day care center to check on the woman, why not just call home himself.
I didn't understand that either. Was the baby normally in daycare maybe?? And why would the dad call unless he had suspicions??
There are 3 degrees of this postpartum syndrome:
1) postpartum blues
2) postpartum depression
3) postpartum psychosis (ding ding. it looks like we got a winner!)
Excellent points.
Why does it seem that weird stuff always happens in Texas?
Thinking about doing it to a screaming child, and continuing despite the pain inflicted makes my soul hurt.
This is exactly what I thought of when I heard this story this morning. And that poor little baby, how that child must have suffered.
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