Andrea Yates verdict - huh?

[Lissa]

I sure as hell wouldn't try to cause my child to die by drowning her, or him, in the bathtub, which is what this whole thread is about in the first place.

Drowning not just one, but FIVE, of your own kids, your own flesh and blood, in a bathtub, one after the other, and chasing a few of them around the house when they realized what was going on and tried to flee . . . you see, even children have an instinct for self preservation.

If someone was trying to kill my kids, I am not sure if I'd be in control, or a raving loony, but I know how to swing a stick, bat, or fire a weapon, depending on the tools at hand.

Killing people is not necessarily an act of pure irrationality. It depends on the killer, and on the circumstances. Methodically rounding up your kids to drown them used to be called some very simple words:

Evil, Murder, Manslaughter, Infanticide, Filicide.

Mad dogs are put down, so should Filicidal maniacs.

There, we are back on topic, so let's take this PPD and PPP and PPPark it. :whistling:

Occhi

And she was so F'ed in the head that she didn't know right from wrong Occhi. We both know what she did was wrong, but she didn't. That's where all this tragedy comes from, 5 children lost their lives and their mother is so screwed up that she couldn't realize what she was doing was wrong.

The fact of the matter is, she is being put down in a way. She will spend the rest of her life staring at white walls never really seeing the outside world. For all practical purposes she's already dead. She's been removed from society.

Who knows, maybe medicine will find a cure for her and maybe one day she can be productive in society, but I doubt it. Only time will tell if that comes to pass.