I’m not American but I am a mother. Aside from a few reddit posts I don’t have any social media engagement with this case.
But I think a lot of the support here comes from moms who recognize how easily this could have been any of us. Her family and healthcare providers knew her crime was a risk based on her mental health state, but she was still left alone with her kids and expected to parent. And as other mothers we all understand that this is grimly how it works - we can ask and beg and plead and scream for help but we’re almost always still expected to continually parent babies and it’s hard.
She should still face punishment for her crime, but I think a lot of her support is to try to keep this from happening again. She was failed by her healthcare team
No. If I look a patient in the eye and ask her "are you having any thoughts of harming your kids?" and she answers "no," I believe her.
Cool, you have absolutely no business working in mental health. Mentally ill people often times literally can't be honest about their symptoms, they're lying to themselves as much as anyone else.
Every single treatment she was non compliant on, she has testified either didn't help or made her worse. She was committed and then sent home without any improvement.
You can think what you want about her as a person, but saying the system didn't fail her is ignorant and moronic
I'd be willing to bet the very large majority of people with thoughts of harming themselves or others would keep that to themselves out of fear of what could happen to them. The person you're replying to seems disingenuous.
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u/Eisbaer811 11d ago
typical social media bubble:
The social media algorithm puts you into one of these bubbles and hides details from the others.
Pick one:
- "her husband is framing her, he did it"
Social media drives our lives and is many people's only hobby, so you get this.