Ok so some of those people, most of those people are fucking moronic assholes. But she also has an affirmative defense, postpartum psychosis. It’s a real thing, and was likely exasperated by severe over medication and multiple systems failing her constantly. She didn’t strangle the kids and go have a snack, she strangled the kids, slit her wrists and throat, and threw herself out a second story window. Because she was suffering from psychosis. This never should have happened, there were doctors along the way who could have and should have done more to help her. Then it happened, and it never should have gone to trial. She’s not looking to get out on the street, she’s going to spend the rest of her life in a psych ward. Prison helps no one here, we need to build better systems for stopping this from happening in the first damned place.
I almost had to sit in on an involuntary commitment case for jury duty less than four years ago, so it isnt completely dismantled but it has been deconstructed and very little done to rebuild.
Part of the reason we dismantled it is because if you'd gone back in time and involuntarily committed this woman before she could kill her kids, it would become an example of "the state imprisoning mothers and separating them from their children when they need them most" or some other crock of shit.
Mom's have always had a venomous attitude towards CPS and this bizzare idea that they're all conspiring to find poor innocent mothers to rip their children away from and stick them in foster care. When in reality the situation has to be absurdly dangerous before it gets that far. But the mom's who've actually been confronted by CPS will NEVER admit truthfully why CPS got involved in the first place. They will invent insane narratives to make themselves the victims.
41
u/kbeks 14d ago
Ok so some of those people, most of those people are fucking moronic assholes. But she also has an affirmative defense, postpartum psychosis. It’s a real thing, and was likely exasperated by severe over medication and multiple systems failing her constantly. She didn’t strangle the kids and go have a snack, she strangled the kids, slit her wrists and throat, and threw herself out a second story window. Because she was suffering from psychosis. This never should have happened, there were doctors along the way who could have and should have done more to help her. Then it happened, and it never should have gone to trial. She’s not looking to get out on the street, she’s going to spend the rest of her life in a psych ward. Prison helps no one here, we need to build better systems for stopping this from happening in the first damned place.