Without getting too much into other issues, this is a sad crime all the way around.
Major depression causes many human problems, and they're less pretty by outward perceptions. I gave two good links above that discuss post partum depression and why it is considered a major depression. The disease has a few triggers to exacerbate its symptoms, and this woman had every single solitary trigger going on in her life to cause a chain reaction in her body/mind. On the second link, I called "Complications of Postpartum Depression," everything was in place in the woman's life to trigger murder of the child. Scientists know the chemical trails that trigger insanity. We would expect something like this from a paranoid schizophrenic. It is just more shocking when such behaviors occur in an otherwise gentle person who was never known to act in a vindictive way toward anyone else.
No, the devil didn't make her do it, misfiring chemicals in her brain caused her act. You don't have to trust me, you need a degree in chemistry and another in obstetrics to even partially wrap your mind around this woman's misfortune.
At this time, if this was a recent event, a competent medical team would have this woman sedated with bindings holding her to a bed and 3-minute suicide watch checks. When she comes out of her chemical imbalance and realizes what she has done, she will trigger again and again inappropriate misfirings in her brain.
That's why I'm so sorry for the baby. He or she didn't have a fighting chance on account of the abdication of care this woman received from other human beings in her life. Had she had any modicum of care, she would have received supportive pointers on how to deal not only with the child's sad issues but her own as well.
She has a long fight ahead of her for many years. When she is well enough to stand trial, I do not know what will happen to her. I only know how sick physicians and caregivers now know that her serious mental illness is, and she should be hospitalized until she is declared mentally fit.
Do not mistake this post as an excuse for murder. The point is the aggravating circumstance of mental illness was not considered serious enough to hospitalize the woman before the event. It is now, and the only competent thing caregivers can do now is to deal with this terrible aftermath of mental illness carried out to the tenth power.
Major depression causes many human problems, and they're less pretty by outward perceptions. I gave two good links above that discuss post partum depression and why it is considered a major depression. The disease has a few triggers to exacerbate its symptoms, and this woman had every single solitary trigger going on in her life to cause a chain reaction in her body/mind. On the second link, I called "Complications of Postpartum Depression," everything was in place in the woman's life to trigger murder of the child. Scientists know the chemical trails that trigger insanity. We would expect something like this from a paranoid schizophrenic. It is just more shocking when such behaviors occur in an otherwise gentle person who was never known to act in a vindictive way toward anyone else.
No, the devil didn't make her do it, misfiring chemicals in her brain caused her act. You don't have to trust me, you need a degree in chemistry and another in obstetrics to even partially wrap your mind around this woman's misfortune.
At this time, if this was a recent event, a competent medical team would have this woman sedated with bindings holding her to a bed and 3-minute suicide watch checks. When she comes out of her chemical imbalance and realizes what she has done, she will trigger again and again inappropriate misfirings in her brain.
That's why I'm so sorry for the baby. He or she didn't have a fighting chance on account of the abdication of care this woman received from other human beings in her life. Had she had any modicum of care, she would have received supportive pointers on how to deal not only with the child's sad issues but her own as well.
She has a long fight ahead of her for many years. When she is well enough to stand trial, I do not know what will happen to her. I only know how sick physicians and caregivers now know that her serious mental illness is, and she should be hospitalized until she is declared mentally fit.
Do not mistake this post as an excuse for murder. The point is the aggravating circumstance of mental illness was not considered serious enough to hospitalize the woman before the event. It is now, and the only competent thing caregivers can do now is to deal with this terrible aftermath of mental illness carried out to the tenth power.