Charged with Murder

[Sunshine]

Isn't it curious that the paper would use the term "young mother"? 16 is young; 25 is probably at or above average for a 1st pregnancy. Looking for sympathy for the murderess or do we now consider anyone under 30 a "child"?

The press usually creates a sympathy line. I can't recall the name, but the early published reports of a young black woman who killed her children leaned heavily toward claiming she was 'overwhelmed' by poverty.

Sorry, poverty is no excuse. But the chick in this case is not poor if she lives in Hendersonville TN.

 

[Sunshine]

Lawyer: Mom charged with killing twins on meds | The Tennessean | tennessean.com

Her father discovered one of the infants Wednesday and called police, who tracked her down at work at Snodgrass-King Pediatric Dental Associates in Hermitage

http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/...oidable?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

In her first trimester.... you are correct.

That would depend on the state, wouldn't it?

All abortions prior to the end of the first trimester are legal in the United States, regardless of a given state’s law.

Is it going to turn into a defense of abortion? If only she hired someone else to kill the twins while they were in the womb everything would be fine?

Reel it in. Would ya. This thread is not about abortion!

According to the OP it is.

Of course this isn’t a ‘defense of abortion,’ that’s idiotic - this is a sad and tragic event having nothing whatsoever to do with abortion.

They will claim she is mentally disabled; had some kind of pre-post depression or some other twinkie defense. My gut tells me she will get a slap on the wrist. And will most likely breed again before she's 30. Horrible.

All those accused of a crime are presumed innocent; all accused of a crime are entitled to a vigorous defense and may avail themselves of the law with regard to mitigating circumstances. That one considers the case a ‘slam dunk’ or the act ‘horrible’ is fortunately irrelevant.

 

[freedombecki]

This is a troublesome case from its beginning.

It has family dysfunction, out-of-wedlock sex, fear, betrayal, secretiveness, birth, murder, a suicide watch, intelligence, stupidity, cops, lawyers, judges, and possibly jurors or a plea deal. The only thing that's missing is the boyfriend/lover.

Well, every good drama has to have something a little different.

 

[Iridescence]

One curiosity is who the father is. I'm sure there will be genetic testing. OK, I mean it IS Tennessee, where Minnie and Uncle Nabob spent so much time out behind the barn.

The death of children sometimes provokes so much emotion from some of us that it can potentially blind us from seeing through the immediate picture presented. Who was the father would be one blaring question, and so would how and where did she spend the money she worked for. Sometimes deeply imbedded co-dependency can prevent some from being able to act/react independently of those who law above us. Even if there was no physical proof of incest, there is sometimes an emotional/mental incest that would only be revealed to the more observant investigators. She may have gotten pregnant by someone else and it may have been by someone who she had no further contact with, however, just how manipulative and/or controlling were her parents? Mind you, they may not have been at all, and she may have been addicted to passing the buck and not holding her own accountability in check. These are questions, though, that arise when there are such secrets kept in such a way...

According to the reports the parents didn't know she was pregnant.

Perhaps the reason she kept it such a secret from them is because of their possible insistent control over every other aspect of her life. She is likely considered the poor young mother because of her level of obvious inexperience. Just sayin, it makes sense.... to be so complex.

 

[Sunshine]

The sympathy line is working early, as it usually does.

 

[Iridescence]

It isn't sympathy without viable cause. It's perhaps logic's best card even if in the end it works more for the prosecuting attorney's favor.

 

[chanel]

Doesn't every murderer have a sob story? The teen gangbanger with the crackhead mom. The illegal alien from a war torn country. The serial killer with the abusive mother. None of it matters. Every killer has an excuse. The crime is infanticide. It matters not whether she was abused; confused or a perfect angel up to this point. Those babies deserve justice.

 

[Sunshine]

Doesn't every murderer have a sob story? The teen gangbanger with the crackhead mom. The illegal alien from a war torn country. The serial killer with the abusive mother. None of it matters. Every killer has an excuse. The crime is infanticide. It matters not whether she was abused; confused or a perfect angel up to this point. Those babies deserve justice.

Yes, it does. And there is a lie in every trial.

 

[OODA_Loop]

Damn. 25 and she could been on her parents insurance still for dont kill your babies classes.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Doesn't every murderer have a sob story? The teen gangbanger with the crackhead mom. The illegal alien from a war torn country. The serial killer with the abusive mother. None of it matters. Every killer has an excuse. The crime is infanticide. It matters not whether she was abused; confused or a perfect angel up to this point. Those babies deserve justice.

So does the accused.

Justice is about the truth, facts, and evidence, not revenge predicated on subjective emotion. The greatest injustice to be done to the victims is to illegally convict their murderer by violating due process.