Woman who killed her children with rat poison has been found not guilty of murder

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The facts are, a woman who researched the ways to kill her a 3 year old and a 4 year old children, and she decided to use rat poisoning to make her children bleed internally to death following by smothering them. We also know this woman killed her children because she believed that her husband has been unfaithful to her. This woman claims she was severe depressed to the point that she was incapable of distinguishing right from wrong. She in fact was capable to decide that her life was still worth living. I do not like to make a conclusion based only on a newspaper article. If the facts are as stated, I believe this these murders were premeditated and based purely on revenge. Why should anyone feel sorry for this cold-blooded murderer? I am sorry for the loss of two young children and I am sorry their father has to live with this horrible loss.

An old saying,' do the crime,you need to do the time'
do the time,and take whatever meds as required,,

I do not feel a drop of sorrow for her. I feel great sorrow for the lives those children could have lived.

This "mother" should calm down and go to a resort to sip mango juice by the sea. She should have to write ten times on the board, "I will not kill my next two daughters," and then she should get it signed by her friends. After, she should drink some more juice, go to bed and go back home.
Perhaps I am too mean and right wing.
That is terrible punishment for her slip-up, but after the vacation to repair her mental illness, she should return home to a "Welcome Back" party.
This woman has suffered enough. Time for her to go home, clean the blood and watch TV.

It's ok, honey, we know you didn't mean to hurt your children. It was something chemically or hormonally wrong with you, not you. We'll get you treatment and help and then you can go back out into society and do as you please. Just promise you we'll continue your medications and psychiatric visits, ok?
As for the babies your ex-husbands family buried them. And they are in a better place. You won't have to worry about them any more.
And so she's free on a month worth of medication, an appointment with a psychiatrist and a promise to stay on her meds and see the doctor.............
Murderers kill. Mentally ill people hurt themselves unless they have the pre-inclination to kill without the mental illness.
This woman knew she'd live but her husband would be hurt for life if she killed his kids and not herself.
Women that kill their kids and not themselves are murderers.
I feel sorry for them but the facts remained she ended the life of two other Innocent people. She must be held accountable. She might be defective so what we give her the chance to repeat the said murders again? How do you know she's just not a deceptive liar?

Do you know what rat poison does? It makes the rat bleed from the inside....then they die.

It's not pleasantly kind.

Uhh, next time try birth control or abortion???? Why kill your children with rat poison?

And what kind of country is this? Kill your children, go free.

She didn't have the guts to kill him (coward that she is), so she murdered her kids.

One day, when Congress decides to put in a few days of real work, they can brush away the dust and cobwebs from man yof the archaic no-longer-applicable- laws.
Until then, people will do desperate things to skirt the law.

Thanks to our judicial system and feminism that make public believe that women became so unstable and even infidelity of her husband can push a woman over the edge to brutally kill her baby.

One would think that the husband would have picked up on signs of post partum psychosis after three years if that had been a problem. I'm not convinced that PPP had anything to do with this. I think perhaps the infidelity of the husband pushed this woman over the edge. I don't doubt her mental state but she should have been found guilty but mentally ill and locked up.

As painful as it is the truth is mothers commit horrific crimes. I am sickened by the news of mother killing her newborn eating the baby's brain, or stabbing her children multiple times while they are asleep, or mother who killed her 20-month-old son by doping him to make him sleep, or the mother who gives her infant alcohol so baby sleeps and does not interfere with her day, or the mother drowns her children pushing them off the bridge, or the mother who dragged her child through a store on leash. All these are current crimes that are frequently suppressed by the media unlike the crimes committed by men. Highly publicized story of man and his wife who kidnapped 11 year old girl does not compare to any of the above stories.

How many times has a man been murdered by his wife and it has been ruled a suicide based on only her testimony??

Most men who do kill or abuse their children are not their biological fathers.

How often are there multiple people involved in a murder, but one is let go because they blamed the other?? Often this happens when it is a male-female partnership the woman gets let off with a lighter sentence.

This bibliography examines 246 scholarly investigations: 187 empirical studies and 59 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 237,750.
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

Numbers vary based on who does the study and how it is carried out, but overall women are the majority of perpetrators in child abuse. The lowest number was just over 56%, but that was from child welfare statistics and there are many people who get accused of neglect/abuse without criminal prosecution and little to no evidence supporting the allegations.

Regjoeschmo...
Here are the facts as recorded and reported by the FBI in 2005.
Newer data is pending.
According to the FBI Supplementary homicide reports 2005 these are the facts when it comes to murder in the U.S.:
Male offenders for all homicides are 88.8%. Women: 11.2%.
In instances where one intimate partner murders another, males commit 65.5% of these homicides, women: 29.2%.
When children are the victims, it's men who murdered them 61.8% of the time, women: 38.2%.
When elderly victims are killed, men commit 93.5% of these crimes- women: 6.5%. In cases of serial killing (multiple victims): men are the offenders 93.5% of the time, women: 6.5%. In instances where two or more offenders work together to commit a homicide men are the offenders 91.6% of the time, women: 8.4%.

Murder is not typical.
A woman who kills is even more of a shock because most women would not do that; they have more compassion because the act of giving birth brings a woman to deeper emotions and connection to compassion than most men.
HOWEVER< it is very rare indeed for a woman to murder her children.
Nevertheless, when she does that she is a murderer.
Society must punish her severely.
PPP?
Bipolar?
Paranoid?
Let's go to the physical. If she was blind in one eye, or if she once had her leg amputated, that is no excuse for her to commit murder.
If she has PPP or if she is bipolar or if she is paranoid, those are also no excuse for her to commit murder.

PPP affects 1.5-2% of all women, and it encompasses a list of symptoms (almost 400). There is always major warning signs that precede a diagnosis of a psychosis, and in every case I have found there was self infliction before any of them turned it on their children.

As I stated before there is plenty of warning signs and medical professionals are very tuned in to looking for them. Many severe cases come from less educated or more strict social environments. For example a third world country with minimal health care for new mothers or a society such as China's which tends to look on such issues as a matter of shame rather than a medical issue.

Any medical professional will not even consider a psychosis diagnosis without ample supporting evidence. There are specific criteria for even forming a suggestion. None of this cannot be found within the article, or even a basic search for more information on this case.

Why is there a sudden portrayal of shock when a mother does these types of things?? Is it so easy to ignore that women are the main perpetrators of abuse towards their own children?? Still when a father does something like this it is a call to arms to condemn the man...... IMHO the punishment should fit the crime regardless of gender.

Bipolar is no tricky way out to explain or excuse murder. Millions, not thousands, but, MILLIONS of Americans have bipolar issues and they do not feed their children or any one else rat poison.
Don't give me this bipolar crap.
She murdered her children.
Wake up!
She's a murderer.

Vierotchka, here in US no family member can force a person to get treatment. This is especially disturbing when family member has mental illness. The only exception is immediate danger. Even then violent person may not be hospitalized.
Many women are diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, Bi-Polar and many seek treatment.
Women almost always avoid long prison sentence even for murder.
Why should the violent women be excused for their crimes?

I agree with Vierotchka on this, people need to become more informed about mental illness. As tragic as this case is, you gotta be crazy to kill your kids.

Revenge is not justice.

I thought it was a baby,but you can't claim PPP with a toddler.Bullshit!

no.. harming or killing children is one of the lowest human responses... or justifying someone who not only kills children but kills THEIR OWN children... fuck that.. admit she is wrong.. quit making excuses for her!!

Rat poison is in alot of medications like the main one is Coumadin or it's called Wafrin it is a blood thinner they give it to people with blood clots and heart problems. What this baby went through was he bled to death internaly. Poor baby.

i agree except in the case of killing or harming or raping children.. then i think all bets are off and those children deserve some AVENGING on their part...

I wonder if the "judge" considered how the stomach aches of those 3 and 4 year old children felt, until they were completely murdered.
Now she can go to jail for a few years, get out, move to a new city, change her name, move to a new country and meet a great guy, have children, buy rat poison and get back to work on her new children.
Coming soon to a court near you.

I believe this case would fall under this proposed law, lets hope it passes and other states follow suit.

The sentence should be Guilty of first degree murder, guilty on all counts; and insane. Put her away with no chance of parole. or as someone else mentioned stick a needle in her arm.
Mothers and fathers that can do something heinous like this to their child(ren) are not worthy of life. Children trust their parents. How awful for children with parents like this.

so we're now making excuses for women who kill their children?! thats what this world has come to?! i dont care if she had PPD or not... SHE KILLED HER INNOCENT CHILDREN!! its her own fault for not getting it treated...

whats wrong wit people

Oh the effects of a broken relationships, I think the father is just as guilty! He didnt think how his actions would affect anyone else including his children. When I got divorced about 24 years ago, we were both court orders on moral issues concerning the children including no neg. speech or actions agianst the others. Now they dont include it in the judges orders anymore and whats in the best interest of the child has become obsolete.

Very sad story and even sadder is how the children passed from this world.
It use to Make one wonder who created the Double standard for justice and gender wars btwn woman and man,,,from this maybe it's apparent /obvious that it's the courts that perform,act on it,,as reported >At her judge-only trial

They truly unable to think rite, I have seen mostly the women come in and they usually hurt themselves before they hurt the child but in some extreme cases I have seen abuse of the child,how sad.

The persons suffering from postpartum psychosis are the last persons able to get help for their condition, it is not their responsibility. It is a severe mental condition in which the person is incapable of seeking help, or even realizing that they need help. Might as well ask a schizophrenic person to seek help while going through a severe psychotic episode.

vierotch says:

Yes - the effects of untreated postpartum psychosis can last for many years

It is imperative to understand that it is ones responsibility to get the help one needs, this is the reason for the education of PPD. To relinquish ones responsibility of their own actions based on a proposed diagnosis is only giving others a free excuse to do the same.

seeing how there were individual responses pertaining to PPD in this thread rather than posting it as an original comment ill just post it here so everyone gets a "response"

three and four year olds and you bring in post partum depression?? I do believe that in these few years there has been ample information for this woman to reach out and receive the help she needed if she in fact did suffer from post partum depression. Personally, it seems that after so long the chemical imbalances caused by pregnancy that would induce PPD would have been gone or in the least minimal.

I would say this as a Weird Incident n by a woman suffereing the psychotic disorder.....BULLS !!
I hate it.

If she really wanted to protect her children, she should have taken her own life instead.

In my opinion anyone who kills a child deserves to die for it! while I am in general opposed to the death penality in most cases stuff like this gives me pause to re-think my position!

Weird how that works. If that had of been the father of the children he would be getting the death sentence. Amazing how we are so free..

HAHAHA and protecting your children... BY KILLING THEM?!?! Is that not the most oxymoron thing you have ever heard?

youknow i gotta say this...i staunchly oppose the death penalty... but when it comes to children... thats the one time i think it SHOULD be implimented.. just disgusting!!

I would agree that the woman was a "loon".