# I pit the woman who threw her baby off a 4 story parking structure!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006 "2011-08-25T04:41:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BaconAndEggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/1 "2011-08-25T04:41:47Z")
[http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles\_n35/police-orange-baby.html](http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_n35/police-orange-baby.html) The mother had post-partum depression, and the baby had to wear a helmet to fix his twisted neck and flat head. She was unhappy with this, and threw him off the parking structure, AND get this…went in to have her parking validated (read from another source, Huffington Post), then left. There are no words. The baby survived one day, but died today. The pain the baby must have felt. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/2 "2011-08-25T04:50:03Z")
Sure, but where’s the challenge in pitting someone like that? Pit someone a little less obviously wrong, and it’s a real challenge! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/3 "2011-08-25T04:52:36Z")
I’m surprised the baby survived that fall. My daughter had a helmet for the same reasons. Twisted Neck (actually the muscles on one side are shorter then the other (torticollis) and flat head (plagiocephaly). The fact that my daughter had this is what prompted me to tell Bearflag to take his little one into the doctor to get checked out since she had the same symptoms, which obviously turned out to be something totally different. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/4 "2011-08-25T05:09:16Z")
Killing babies is bad. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/5 "2011-08-25T05:11:14Z")
I’m glad to see someone is finally taking a stand against this sort of thing. Throwing infants off buildings is wrong and I don’t care who hears me say it. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/6 "2011-08-25T05:16:31Z")
I don’t know guys, the bastards just whine and drain society’s limited resources. I say kill the fuckers. However, this scenario was deplorable, what about the poor people on ground level who may have gotten hit, or worse, had baby splattered all over them? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/7 "2011-08-25T05:16:44Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Killing babies is bad. _Are_ bad. I can’t tell you how many killing babies I’ve had to fight off in the last few days. Headshots seem to work, which is good, because of their disproportionately large heads. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/8 "2011-08-25T05:21:51Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > _Are_ bad. I can’t tell you how many killing babies I’ve had to fight off in the last few days. Headshots seem to work, which is good, because of their disproportionately large heads. You should try throwing them off parking structures. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/9 "2011-08-25T05:55:27Z")
While of course I don’t know the true details of this event anymore than any of the rest of us do, it seems unlikely that a Mom was just “unhappy” that her child had torticolliis and positional plagiocephaly so killed him. Not impossible mind you, but it seems more likely that she has postpartum psychosis (_not_ postpartum depression). For those seriously interested, [here](http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/166/4/405) is an article about postpartum psychosis and infantacide. Seven months out is a bit late for that though. While postpartum mental illnesses are very common (about 15% of women in the first three months have clinically significant mental illness, more often anxiety disorder and OCD than pure depression), postpartum psychosis is very uncommon, more like 1 to 2/1000. Women who have postpartum psychosis are at substantial risk to kill their babies; 4% do. Depressed women often have intrusive thoughts that may include thoughts of harming their babies but they are upset by it (“ego-dystonic”) and do not act; those with psychosis feel taken over and act (“ego-syntonic”) and do not really understand the consequences of their actions. It is sometimes considered a psychotic presentation of bipolar disorder triggered by postpartum hormonal shifts and those with a personal or family history of bipolar disorder are at greater risk. If a new Mom has a both a personal history of bipolar disorder and a family history of postpartum psychosis her risk of postpartum psychosis is 74%. It usually presents by 2 weeks postpartum as opposed to other postpartum mental illnesses (anxiety, OCD, depression …) that are more often around 1 to 2 months postpartum. Again, I do not know if this woman had postpartum psychosis or not, and if so how she was being treated … or not treated. Perhaps details will come out over the next few days. I do know however that it is easy to miss: a mom with postpartum psychosis may not often volunteer the information that she is hearing voices that tell her to do things or offer up her delusions without prompting. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/10 "2011-08-25T05:57:28Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > You should try throwing them off parking structures. Uh, I don’t think so: It took the baby mentioned in the OP two days to die. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/11 "2011-08-25T07:12:55Z")
Maybe she thought she was a Spartan. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/12 "2011-08-25T07:33:42Z")
Be careful, OP. That’s a controversial position you’re taking… Joe ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/13 "2011-08-25T08:17:15Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Uh, I don’t think so: It took the baby mentioned in the OP two days to die. Look for a taller parking structure. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/14 "2011-08-25T08:36:04Z")
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/15 "2011-08-25T08:59:16Z")
Down with this sort of thing! ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/16 "2011-08-25T09:09:51Z")
[In her defense, that baby was being kind of a dick.](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/12/3/) ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/17 "2011-08-25T11:00:05Z")
Throwing babies off multi-story car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/18 "2011-08-25T11:33:05Z")
> [@kferr](#): > > Throwing babies off multi-story car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels. Joke stolen from Tim Vine. Though he’s a good choice to steal from, because he’s so funny. Meanwhile, I concur that killing babies is a poor way to behave. I discourage it. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/19 "2011-08-25T11:52:54Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Down with this sort of thing! Careful now. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/20 "2011-08-25T12:02:12Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Maybe she thought she was a Spartan. Come back with a Mini or on it? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006.md?page=2)