Woman Reportedly Slits Throat of Infant Daughter

Pioneer Press ^ | Aug. 04, 2003 | LISA DONOVAN

[wallcrawlr]

35-year-old woman reportedly slit the throat of her 6-month-old daughter in St. Paul this morning, killing the baby, police said. Mine An Ener, who had apparently been suffering from depression, confessed to the slaying inside a home in the Desnoyer Park neighborhood on St. Paul’s western edge, police said.

About 9 a.m., Ener reportedly finished feeding the infant in a relative’s house in the 500 block of Desnoyer Avenue. She carried the baby into the bathroom and, moments later, walked out and told a relative in the house: "I think I killed the baby," said St. Paul police Sgt. Bruce Wynkoop.

The relative called 911 immediately. As medics tried to assist the baby, police took Ener into custody.

The slaying occurred at the home of a relative where Ener and her daughter, who reside in Pennsylvania, had been visiting for an undetermined amount of time, police said.

[TheCrusader]

"This wasn't baby blues, it was a pathologic chemical imbalance that could have been corrected with medicine."

I think it was a cold blooded, murderous act perpetrated by a low life, cold hearted witch who decided she didn't like the pressure of raising a child anymore. And I think the cowardly feminists who blame their mental state every time one of them slaughters an innocent child should do extra time for being such outrageously bold, callous, indifferent pigs.

[katz]

Well, let her live with the knowledge that she killed her baby.....let her live the rest of her life in prison. She made the choice to give life and to take life. If taking her infants life was a call for help then she got it....she can get all the help she needs behind bars. She will no longer have the right to life. I do not feel sympathy for her. For G-d's sake there are numerous public broadcast statements for every 'issue' out there. She could have gotten help. After all, our government has a program for everyone.

[TheCrusader]

The feminists come crawling out of the woodwork to spew their feelings about "post partum depression" everytime a mother murders her child; (which has become the new national pass time for American mothers, it seems). There is no excuse for the murder of a little baby, none. To claim that God created a naturally occurring mental state that makes mothers kill their babies soon after birth is the lowest and creepiest notion I've ever heard in my life. These people who spew this garbage are probably cold hearted wenches who are looking for a way out of their own homicidal tendencies. WAKE UP AMERICA. There is no depression or psychosis that forces mothers to cut their baby's throats or drown them. As a parent I know that my love for my children will always outwiegh any ill feelings I am experiencing, and any phychic pain. This baby-killing mentality is the natural occurance of a nation that has downgraded the status of the preborn baby to that of non-person. Mass abortion had led mothers to think of children as evil, unwanted "things". "Things" that get in the way of their freedom, their pleasure, and their persuit of money.

[jlogajan]

To claim that God created a naturally occurring mental state that makes mothers kill their babies soon after birth is the lowest and creepiest notion I've ever heard in my life.

Thanks for your scientific input. Now back to "the earth is flat" Biblical revelations.

[HiTech RedNeck]

To lay the ontology of the entire world at the feet of mindless material process leads inexorably to such ends. In a universe of robots, who cares what is monstrous or cruel?

[frodolives]

I wonder if this poor child had a father, equally responsible for care of this child.

[I still care]

I waiting to hear this woman planned to homeschool.

[hopespringseternal]

Thanks for your scientific input. Now back to "the earth is flat" Biblical revelations.

This thread is drawing all the best people. Now we learn the notion that women might actually love their babies is akin to thinking the world is flat.

What rock do you people crawl out from under?

[honeygrl]

"Who *cares* if she was "suffering" from depression? It cant be anything compared to the suffering this innocent child went through"

I second that. People who kill children on purpose don't deserve to live themselves. I hope she gets the chair.

[Z in Oregon]

Thanks for your scientific input. Now back to "the earth is flat" Biblical revelations.

Jlogajan, you are definitively idiotic.

Crusader, your point was well-spoken.

[honeygrl]

"This wasn't baby blues, it was a pathologic chemical imbalance that could have been corrected with medicine."

And it can now be corrected with the harshest penalty the court can possibly find to give her. MANY women get post pardum depression and even post pardum psychosis (my mom had that after my brother was born) and they don't go killing their kids because of it. There is no good excuse to slit your baby's throat. There's no excuse at all.

[Z in Oregon]

People who kill children on purpose don't deserve to live themselves. I hope she gets the chair.

Right on.

[jlogajan]

I have been depressed, I know lots of people who have been depressed.

You don't, however, know everyone who has been depressed. And you don't know whether they were more or less depressed than you.

I accidently poked my hand with a nail once, does that make me Jesus on the cross?

[jlogajan]

we learn the notion that women might actually love their babies is akin to thinking the world is flat.

At least pretend to be intellectual honest. She said God would not created postpartum depression. Now back to reality.

[honeygrl]

I truly think that women (or men for that matter) who kill their children should, at the very least, have their ability to have more children taken away. Sterilize them. They obviously didn't want the child or children they had already, no reason to let them have more.

[HiTech RedNeck]

We've seen other cases of child slaying in which the mother apparently wanted to spite the father. But they only seem to be sensational when more than one child is involved. "Only one child? How dull!"

[sayfer bullets]

Sickness.

Just imagine Katie Colon's reaction had the knife been in a dad's hands. Would depression get him sympathy? I think not.

It is simply sick that somehow a woman murdering a child is any less punishable than a man. The abortion culture has truly brought us to a frightening point.

That we're even debating mental fitness is pathetic enough.

[bd476]

SarahW, your insight is remarkable, considering the amount of negative press spewed out every single day regarding the "evils of psychotropic medication and psychiatry."

How ironic to note that many, if not all of the anti-psychotropic medication and anti-psychiatry press releases come directly from the Church of Scientology.

Of course, every "religion" is entitled to their own beliefs tax deductions and cult-like recruiting techniques, which intentionally mislead potential members victims, deriding psychiatry while promising "fixed" lives through "scientifically proven auditing" techniques.

And hey it worked for Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Kelli Preston, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley and thousands more.

The link below connects to the Church of Scientology's Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR).

Caveat emptor.

http://www.cchr.org/

[RepoGirl]

They obviously didn't want the child or children they had already, no reason to let them have more.

Amen to that, my friend. But, I also like your suggestion about giving her the chair. No reason for this waste of skin and air to keep breathing.

As I write this, my four-month-old daughter, Bebe, is sleeping in her crib not three feet from me. I think after I post, I'm going to give her a small kiss on her cheek and try not to wake her.