Sorry to disagree with you but she had a history of mental illness. Of course no one predicted this to happen (no brainer). But those around her must have had some feeling of hesitation in her being left alone with their baby. In fact the husband called 911 as he had a feeling something was wrong. Of course she is responsible..but, I believe some signs "might" have been there. Perhaps the severing of the childs arms were never predicted, but her state of mental health was evident; thus causing the husband to call 911.
A terrible case. A horrible death.
Regards
fight_truth_decay
I have read a bit about her history, and the only indication that her mental illness affected her childcare was an accusation of neglect--not abuse--that social workers decided was resolved and that any neglect issues were solved. Her husband called 911 AFTER she went crackers on the phone with him, not the night before he left or the day before they talked. She called up AFTER chopping the kid's arms off.
I'm not saying that the dad DOESN'T feel guilty and responsible. But I will be the first, maybe the only person here, to say he SHOULDN'T. When someone else does something horrible, you are not personally responsible for it. The Columbine parents aren't responsible for their kids going loopy. Andrea Yates' husband isn't responsible for her murders. They might FEEL that way. Their victims want to act that way, because the perpetrators are dead, of course, and there's no one else to project blame upon. But the criminals are those who committed the acts.
Anyone else is a victim, both in the sense that they have been robbed of the criminal's companionship by their illegal act and subsequent punishment, and of liberal 'root cause' theory. That theory, long disproven, says that criminals don't commit crimes--it's their environment that does it. And folks who want to blame the husband are falling prey to it.