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Plano Mother Set Free 3 Years After Drowning Children
NBC5i ^ | November 10, 2006

Posted on 11/10/2006 10:14:52 AM PST by pepperhead

PLANO, Texas -- A Plano mother who drowned her two children in 2003 is free to restart her life.

Lisa Diaz is home with her relatives, just three years after killing her two young daughters.

In September 2003, Diaz drowned the sisters, 3 and 6 years old. She told police voices told her to kill them and she was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Doctors said Diaz had recovered enough to be sent home, and a judge ordered her set free.

Collin County prosecutors released this statement: "Given Ms. Diaz apparent swift recovery, Judge Rusch had no choice but to release her. Today's decision underscores the need to reform the insanity defense so that intentional killers are held accountable.”

Diaz and her husband divorced while she was in the mental hospital.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: childkiller; corruption; deathpenalty; lisadiaz; moralabsolutes; rusch; scotus
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To: pepperhead

THIS is the value our society has placed on our children, both the unborn and born. Had she just butchered them upon delivery, no charges at all. At least she got some kind of punishment. THAT is what shocked me most actually.


21 posted on 11/10/2006 10:29:25 AM PST by MadeInAmerica (- If ILLEGAL means Undocumented - Then Breaking and Entering means Unannounced Visit)
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To: Oberon

LOL. That is something to really think about!!!


22 posted on 11/10/2006 10:34:49 AM PST by Shyla
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To: pepperhead

But hey... these crazy Texas women will be in a mental hospital, and they won't be getting out for YEARS!

yeah, right...


23 posted on 11/10/2006 10:36:37 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (Say "NO" to the Trans-Texas Corridor)
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To: half-cajun

Yates will be out before long. The medical professionals are in the business of "curing". They will "cure" this woman, soon enough.


24 posted on 11/10/2006 10:47:20 AM PST by gridlock (My Prognosticator Unit is busted, and stuck on "ROSY". Predictions may be unreliable.)
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To: theDentist

Democrats get power... insanity follows.
________

which explains your non-sequitor post.

http://lyrics.duble.com/lyrics/R/ry-cooder-lyrics/ry-cooder-the-girls-from-texas-lyrics.htm


25 posted on 11/10/2006 10:56:41 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz

perhaps. you got issues with it?


26 posted on 11/10/2006 11:00:22 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: gridlock

Maybe they can start curing them using embryonic stem cells eh?


27 posted on 11/10/2006 11:38:53 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: pepperhead
It was just a couple very late term abortions (/sarcasm)

She should never see the light of day.

28 posted on 11/10/2006 11:40:09 AM PST by newzjunkey (I blame Bush.)
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To: call meVeronica
If it was the father he would have never been released. She was the "Mom" and wold have never "intentionally" hurt her children. Only Men are abusive.

Such is the state of the battle for "equal rights" in our nation. Men are always guilty; women get a free pass.

Last I looked it was Eve who fell first yet Adam takes the blame.

29 posted on 11/10/2006 11:46:07 AM PST by newzjunkey (I blame Bush.)
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To: mmichaels1970
Maybe they can start curing them using embryonic stem cells eh?

I read this as maybe they can cure the dead girls using embryonic stem cells... and, for a second, could imagine the Dems claiming as much!

30 posted on 11/10/2006 11:51:40 AM PST by newzjunkey (I blame Bush.)
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To: newzjunkey

I was talking about curing the "insane" murderer. But heck, embryos ARE supposed to cure everything, so I can see how you had a different interpretation.

I'm reminded of the South Park episode with Christopher Reeve.


31 posted on 11/10/2006 11:58:16 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: swain_forkbeard

Lock up the JURY!


32 posted on 11/10/2006 11:59:48 AM PST by Senormechanico
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To: pepperhead

Please tell me they sterilized this woman. Her and Andrea Yates can be buddies in HELL.


33 posted on 11/10/2006 12:10:32 PM PST by wolfcreek (A personal attack is the reaction of an exhausted and/or disturbed mind.)
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To: pepperhead

Boy... there sure is a lot of (uninformed I fear) judgmental talk going on with this. There IS such a thing as being insane and if you look into this case you will probably agree that she was indeed, insane.... big time.

Personally I think it appears (not passing judgment... wasn't a juror and am not GOD) that the case was handled properly. Those kids are with Jesus... and that mother is well enough to realize what she had done and now she has to live with that for a long time perhaps.

Jesus didn't scold people for having evil spirits... he just helped them and told them to sin no more. I think (myself included because I am very judgmental at times too) we can all learn a lot from Jesus AND this situation.

I found a lot of information I felt was impartial in this article.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2005-01-20/news/feature.html


34 posted on 11/10/2006 12:29:47 PM PST by RRomo (It's a wacky world)
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To: RRomo

We'll make a note of how non judgemental you are so that when the woman kills again we'll know that you won't be judging her.


35 posted on 11/10/2006 12:32:58 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: 69ConvertibleFirebird; Alexander Rubin; An American In Dairyland; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; ...
I don't know if wag or I pinged out the other article about this travesty of justice.

I don't give a rat's tail whether she heard voices in her head. She should have told them to shut up. And if she didn't want her children, she should have found another home for them, or told someone who could help.

This is a perfect example of how so much that is called "justice" is the farthest thing from real justice you can possibly imagine.

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36 posted on 11/10/2006 12:38:16 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: RRomo

She killed two little kids and is out in 3 years. Do you think that is right?


37 posted on 11/10/2006 12:54:15 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: pepperhead

I remember an article by a prominent feminazi columnist about Susan Smith practically excusing her for her murder. The left likes this sort of thing, as a logical extension of abortion.


38 posted on 11/10/2006 12:56:03 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: gridlock

The left doesn't want ANYONE in prison! They want to release all who are already in prison!


39 posted on 11/10/2006 12:57:41 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: pepperhead

She's spending A WEEK with her mother, and then will find her own apartment. Well. That's a plan, isn't it?


40 posted on 11/10/2006 1:22:02 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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