Posted on 11/22/2004 2:03:51 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
An infant died Monday after her mother called 911 to report that she had cut off the baby's arms, police said.
When authorities arrived, they found the baby with her arms severed and the mother waiting calmly with blood on her clothing, police said. The baby died at a hospital.
The 35-year-old mother, whose name was not released, was being questioned by police.
Authorities said other family members, including two school-age children, lived together in the Plano apartment.
Some events from years ago were so horrible we still avoid talking about them and always will. I can imagine what the team must be going through. It's miraculous the baby survived to make it to the hospital. They must have been equipped with advanced life support. Problem is, none of them will likely remember that they kept the poor little girl alive for a while, just that she couldn't be saved.
Judgement of what? She committed the crime adn has already admitted to that.
Probably Post-Partum Depression with psychotic symptoms. Either that or she is a chronic schizophrenic off her meds. Probably saw a lawyer ad telling her that her anti-psychotic meds are "dangerous" and followed the shyster's advice.
Prozac does nothing for psychosis except make it worse. She needed anti-psychotic meds not an anti-depressant.
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Words fail me on this one.
I'm in a religious line of work - and I can't help but think that priests or pastors would be more useful than doctors in cases like this. I don't know.
Once again a real tragedy is deflected to discuss abortion. Do you guys turn every tragedy involving a child into an abortion rant? IMHO, it's very misplaced and diminishes the evil that's taken place here.
You are absolutely correct. Also the family members and friends who care should be involved. I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist (literal translation - one who makes a study of the soul), but I do not believe there is as much "mental disease" as is stated. P.E.S.T. is just the latest pseudodiagnosis that is posh. It allows the psychiatrist to use the psychiatrist equivalent of the ICD-9 for justifying billing this to a third party. Don't kid yourself. If the psychiatrist or psychologist didn't get paid, they would not be found within a mile of this.
>Judgement of what?
Judgment on what was going on in her mind/soul when she committed this terrible act.
Nothing. Normal people can't be possessed to do such a thing. This woman is obviously severly mentally ill. She's broken.
God bless that poor baby....
Agreed. She's obviously psychotic. It would probably be a kindness if she never regained her sanity.
I hear they have fun in prison with child-abusing women... the prison wmen think theyre men (like rabid feminist pigs) and act accordingly... I hope that woman is into pain.
Why would it be heroin? Plano is one of the most affluent sections of the metroplex.
Fashion illnesses in a nutshell.
$50 says she's found insane, and rightfully so. Which would preclude execution in Texas.
Well said.
>>Some mental illnesses truly disavow responsibility from somebody's actions at the time.>>
In the eyes of the government, yes. But not in the eyes of God.
Yep, must be all those evil guns. Er, never mind.
I'm not judging what went on in her heart or soul. The idea would never have occurred to me. Considering your line of work, I suppose that's the first thing you'd think of, but most of us are interested in the atrocious act she committed, and whether the enlightened will demand the sympathy of us low browed Cretins so she can live comfortably in private institution for a few years, on the taxpayers' dollar, be pronounced 'cured' in a few years and sent on her jolly way into a neighborhood near you or me. .
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