[familyop]

The poor mother is a victim or maybe even a heroine (sarcasm, irony). Oh...so sorry--hero.

[sgtbono2002]

Well she dresses neat and at 12 the girl has a better chance of survival by fighting her mother off when she comes in with her pillow..

[MisterRepublican]

Whether or not a person is mentally ill, mentally handicapped or whatever, they should still be held accountable for their actions. Life in a highly secure mental health facility could be an alternative to prison.

[festus]

Why is this woman still speaking ?

[IronJack]

Let's see ... PMS allows them to be total biatches. Post-partum depression allows them to murder their BORN children, while "choice" allows them to murder the unborn ones. Multiple-personality disorder, repressed memory syndrome, and battered wife complex allows them to murder their husbands.

It's good to be the queen.

[silverleaf]

babycide ping

[BibChr]

Perversely, when I read of these murder-suicides (attempted, in this case), I always find myself wishing the perp had reversed the order.

Not my first wish, you understand.

Dan

[PistolPaknMama]

The first thing I'd like to know is if this story happened in any particular state, country or hemisphere. Why FReepers can't post at least a general location somewhere in the title or article is a mystery.

Secondly...

distraught and alone in the midst of undiagnosed postpartum depression,

Almost 99.99 percent of mothers experience post partum depression without killing our infants. That's how 99.99 percent of us lived, despite our mothers who just had a baby and feel alone.

[Sedulous]

I believe what was stated in the article was that nobody was expected to actually understand unless you had experienced it yourself. She sat through a jury of her peers who found her NCR and she hasn't asked for your sympathy and if you had actually read the side bar in the newspaper article instead of just the "blog" posted here you would have read she was essentially forced into the interview by the reporter(s) involved. If she hadn't interviewed the newspaper wouldn't have agreed not to use the location, gender or childs name.
May none of you have to ever walk a mile in her shoes. I don't think you'd make it ten steps.

[reagan_fanatic]

Ramsey has been reunited with her older child who was taken into state custody at age 8 shortly after the infant brother's horrific death.

And they gave this child murderer her other kid back? Poor kid had better sleep with his eyes open.

[Alouette]

I had "postpartum depression" nine times and yet somehow I avoided smothering and drowning my babies.

How did that happen?

[LWalk18]

The poor mother is a victim or maybe even a heroine (sarcasm, irony). Oh...so sorry--hero.

Of course- after all, it is a "tragedy", as if was something that happened to the mother, instead of a murder she was 100% responsible for.

[AlbionGirl]

Why is it that these types are never quite successful at taking their own lives, but are always successful at taking another person's? Is their 'heart' not really in it?