Words fail me. I generally don’t favor the death penalty, but sometimes people make me want to reconsider my position.
And you don’t think there might be just a hint of mental illness going on here? Just a wee tad?
The first thing that pops into my head is to wonder why someone would do that. I would call this an act of evil if I could get beyond “Huh?”
Postnatal depression is a debilitating condition. In around 1 in 1000 new mothers, extreme psychosis can result endangering both the mother, her children and the people around her.
Civilisation does not execute the insane. Killing your own child is almost the definition of “insane”: I genuinely struggle to believe that this person of sound mind coldly and deliberately put their 3 month old in a drier and called the police.
Oh, she’s definately insane. The knee-jerk reaction is “make sure she never breeds again, and get her out of society forever.” But…a dryer? That’s just sick.
Well, if her actions are the result of postnatal psychosis, then preventing her breeding will effectively be an instance of eugenics against the temporarily mentally ill. And, yes, it is just sick by definition.
There are some actions so horrific that they simply cannot be done by a person that is mentally competent. This seems to be one of them. That she is or was insane is quite certain, so she needs to be treated and isolated from society unless and until she is cured.
Aw, poor little guy. 
Mom’s a nut, no doubt. Though the head trauma would have been sufficient to kill the child by itself, I must confess I had no idea that a clothes dryer got hot enough to inflict third degree burns.
Yeah, I would think that blunt force trauma due to the tumbling would be far worse. But then again, I’ve burned myself on zippers before.
I sure hope this woman gets the help she needs. And I hope that she never gets pregnant again. What a horror show.
Infant skin is much more delicate. My first daughter got scalded by water that didn’t even seem that hot to me. I imagine dryers get much hotter.
Has the news said anything about her having postpartum psychosis? Is it possible that she could just be one mean bitch who couldn’t control her temper that deserves to be punished?
I am completely against the death penalty, but just because she did this to her child does it mean she’s mentally ill?
Not arguing with anyone here; I just don’t have all the facts.
The problem with that line of reasoning is that some crimes must then be so horrific that the commision of them automatically qualifies the perpetrator as insane: the more horrific the crime, the greater the degree of exculpation.
Why do so many here think she must be insane or otherwise mentally ill? Lots of sane people do horrific things to their children. Maybe she’s just a sadistic fuck.
There’s nothing in the link to indicate that she has any kind of mental problems, is there?
It’s a given, under these circumstances. Temporary or pre-existing, the woman was out of her mind to do what she did. I bet they automatically perform psychological testing on her before they try her, and I bet they determine she’s nuts.
Sterilize the bitch right now. This very second. Whether she is sick or evil or both, she must be prevented from ever having another child. It is hard for me to come up with any good reason why a person who does something like this should be permitted to live. We put down rabid dogs because they are sick and dangerous, even if they were beloved pets.
Hmmm. I don’t see it that way. Maybe she is insane but just the fact that she killed her kid in a horrible way doesn’t automatically mean she must be insane to me.
That’s a dangerous assumption.
If she’s guilty, the help she needs comes in a pair of 50cc syringes. First one, phenobaratol. Second one, potassium-saline. Or it could come at the end of a rope, or in an airtight room with potassium cyanide gas.
Then again, this is Louisiana…
Did your mother ever put you in the dryer after a bath to dry you off? :dubious:
I was just about to say the same thing, except it may not even sadism, but an extreme selfishness, inability to empathize, and idiocy. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen this stuff happen way to much, but to assume that it could only be due to mental illness is just silly.
I’d consider an inability to empathize – to the point that one puts the child in a clothes dryer – to be a sign of mental illness.
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