[RockChucker]

From Fox: "ST. PAUL, Minn. — Police have arrested a 38-year-old professor accused of fatally slitting her infant daughter's throat Monday morning while visiting her mother's house. The child, Raya Donagi, was found bleeding and unconscious after her grandmother called 911 about 9 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the St. Paul home. Relatives told police that the girl's mother, Mine An Ener, "had inflicted the fatal injuries to the infant," police Sgt. Janet Dunnom said. Police say Ener also confessed to the killing, but prosecutors had not charged her with a crime as of Monday."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93786,00.html

I did a search for Mine Ener and found all kinds of interesting things, including:

"This semester we have invited feminist/historian Mine Ener, Assistant Professorat Villanova University, who will speakabout women, bla bla bla....."

[Galtoid]

This sicko has just become an icon of Women's Studies departments all across America. She will be worshipped.

[ctlpdad]

sickening. how truly sad.

[Tank-FL]

Post partum depression

[mondonico]

She also teaches "Islamic Civilization" [sic].

[Tank-FL]

Maybe we should end that leg gene pool forever with doing the mom in "middle eastern" style.

[End Times Sentinel]

Wow!  You'd think an enlightened feminist professor like this would hold her child's life in higher regard, or at least show more remorse for taking its life...  wait a min- what am I saying???

 

Here's a link to a related story in the Phila Inqirer

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[robowombat]

FULL TEXT

Mother Accused of Slitting Baby's Throat

Tuesday, August 05, 2003



ST. PAUL, Minn. — Police have arrested a 38-year-old professor accused of fatally slitting her infant daughter's throat Monday morning while visiting her mother's house.

The child, Raya Donagi, was found bleeding and unconscious after her grandmother called 911 about 9 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the St. Paul home.

Relatives told police that the girl's mother, Mine An Ener, "had inflicted the fatal injuries to the infant," police Sgt. Janet Dunnom said. Police say Ener also confessed to the killing, but prosecutors had not charged her with a crime as of Monday.

Ener, a history professor at Villanova University (search) in Pennsylvania, had recently returned with her daughter to be with family as she struggled with depression.

Ener told police she suffered from postpartum depression and was on medication. She also said the child had suffered from some physical ailments — at one point, the child was nourished with a feeding tube — and she just wanted to give the baby some relief.

"She felt the baby was suffering," said police Sgt. Bruce Wynkoop.

According to police:

Ener finished feeding Raya in a family room about 9 a.m. She carried Raya to the bathroom, pausing in the kitchen to grab a large knife. She lay the child face-up on the floor, leaned over the girl and pressed the blade of the knife twice across her throat.

Seconds later, Ener appeared empty-handed before her own mother in the family's St. Paul home.

"I think I killed the baby," she said, according to police.

An autopsy was scheduled, with results expected Tuesday.

In an interview with police later Monday, Ener was very matter-of-fact as she talked about everything from the killing to her work as a professor. She showed little emotion.

"There were no tears," Wynkoop said. "I asked, 'Do you feel sorry you did this?' and it was 'Oh, yes, I do.' "

Ener, who grew up in St. Paul, was a graduate of St. Paul Central High School and went on to St. Paul's Macalester College (search). After earning her doctoral degree at the University of Michigan (search), Ener started at Villanova in 1996.

"She's had a very good and strong record here," said John Johannes, vice president of academic affairs at Villanova. "She's being published and she's a good scholar. She is very accomplished."

Campus officials have never had any problems associated with Ener.

Ener married a year ago, and on Feb. 1 gave birth to Raya — her first and only child.

But it was after Raya's birth that Ener began having emotional problems, family told police. Relatives feared Ener might end her own life. Recently, she had returned to St. Paul not only for a visit but also to get some rest.

"She was trying to get herself together," Wynkoop said. "The family has been very supportive of her during her struggle with depression. The family had offered to take care of the baby for a while."

[bondjamesbond]

How old was the child. I mean, was mother just a few days late in excersizing her right of "Choice", or had the kid learned to talk? According to the utilitarian types, this matters.

[MississippiMan]

Ener also confessed to the killing, but prosecutors had not charged her with a crime as of Monday."

And why the heck not?

MM

[Dionysius]

St. Paul, MN, 8/5/03- AP: Prosecutors today declined to press charges against distinguished professor Mine Al Ener for the death of her infant daughter, Raya Donagi. "The child was in the second trimester of post-partum existance and therefore liable for extinguishment in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Roe v. Ashcroft," said Ima Stooge, spokesperson for the Ramsey County State's Attorney's Office. "Ms. Al Ener reached her decision in concert with her chiropractor, Dr. Dudley Kwack, and as such this is a privacy issue and is out of bounds for my office." Stooge went on, however, to explain that Professor Al Ener could face misdemeanor charges as the extinguishment was not carried on in a state approved facility such as the newly opened Wellstone Women's Health and Organ Harvesting Clinic. It is not expected that this incident will hinder the work of Al Ener whom is considered a leading exponent of enlightenment in women's issues.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Question:

You excerpted the article as to not include that the woman had post partum depression and was on medication. She was married and had the child, therefore she did not have an abortion.

So what if she is a professor. The woman had a terrible condition, a condition that several conservative women have as well.

It is horrible that this baby is dead. What makes you think that it is a time to mock her?

[fortunecookie]

I am sickened by this.

She also said the child had suffered from some physical ailments — at one point, the child was nourished with a feeding tube — and she just wanted to give the baby some relief.

Yes, perfect logic, the poor child is suffering so slit her tiny throat and let her slowly bleed out.

No pain or suffering there. (Giant sarcasm and barf alerts.)

This sicko has just become an icon of Women's Studies departments all across America. She will be worshipped.

Yes. Not to mention other pro-abort groups.

...Ener also confessed to the killing, but prosecutors had not charged her with a crime as of Monday...

This can't be good. How can it not be a crime???? The worship has begun...

[diamond6]

Our court system really has to inflict more severe sentences on people who kill/harm babies and children. This just makes me sick.

[beckett]

I agree with those on the thread who recommend that we wait until all the facts are in before making judgements about the political implications of the case.

BUT as the case now reads, I think there is good reason to be very wary about a "post-partum depression" defense for the professor. First of all, depression, like anger, does not excuse murder --- never has, never will. Secondly, though, and more importantly possibly, I detect some elements of Singeresque (Peter Singer, utilitarian philosopher and infanticide proponent) planning in the professor's act, even possibly extending to the brutal manner in which the child's death was effected, so as to leave no doubt as to intention.

This professor may be looking to make a test case for infanticide, especially if, as was implied in the report, the child had a handicap of some kind.

[y2k_free_radical]

Very sad-we should pray for all concerned including her

[Saundra Duffy]

and she just wanted to give the baby some relief.

So she slits the baby's throat. Makes sense.

[MissAmericanPie]

At least she wasn't an American History professor.

[coder2]

Thought you may want to see a picture of the baby-killer...

[Mr. Silverback]

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[sakic]

She's a feminist. I am sure her beliefs about babies made the dirty deed a little easier.

What an ignorant comment. She obviously has severe mental problems. This sort of stuff exists all over the political spectrum.

And then there are those that pounce on the slaughter of a child and use it for their own twisted political needs. Nice job.