Posted on 10/22/2007 4:00:47 PM PDT by nmh
Woman Accused of Killing Expectant Mom, Cutting Baby From Womb, Found Guilty
Monday, October 22, 2007
Family photo released by family spokesman Daniel Madden shows Zeb Stinnett holding his infant daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett, during Easter 2005. Family photo released by family spokesman Daniel Madden shows Zeb Stinnett holding his infant daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett, during Easter 2005. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman whose attorneys had argued that she was suffering from delusions when she killed an expectant mother and cut the baby from her womb was found guilty Monday.
Jurors convicted Lisa Montgomery, 39, of kidnapping resulting in death in the Dec. 16, 2004, attack on 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. Jurors deliberated for about four hours before rejecting Montgomery's insanity defense. Besides convicting her, the jury also could have acquitted her outright or found her not
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This woman wasn't delusional.
This killer KNEW what she was doing and thankfully the jury didn't buy the delusional nonsense.
Honest verdict!
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately.
The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.
- “Unburlesquable Things,” The Galaxy Magazine, July 1870
MARK TWAIN
IMO, she should get capital punishment.
This is a HORRENDOUS crime.
Prayers again the family of this baby ... .
However, during closing arguments, federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark called the pseudocyesis claim “voodoo science.” She said Montgomery instead was driven by fear because she believed her ex-husband, Carl Boman, would expose that she was lying about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of two of the couple’s four children. A custody hearing had been set for January 2005.
Closing Arguments Begin in Trial of Woman Accused Killing Expectant Mom Testimony to Conclude Over Woman Accused of Cutting Baby From Womb Accused Killer of Pregnant Kansas Woman Showed Off Extracted Baby as Own “It’s not pseudocyesis or post-traumatic stress disorder,” Ketchmark said. “And even if you wrap them up and put delusions around them, it’s not insanity.”
and needs to be behind bars to be sure she's secure when she "suffers from delusions" again, and again.
IOW - she need to be forever removed from society -
NO, that’s too easy.
She needs to move on to hell.
That’s much worse than any prison on earth.
She wasnt delusional, she’s evil
I'll chip in for the ticket.
Actually, that might not be much punishment. She'd feel right at home.
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