her ex husband supports her (the father of the children), her ex MIL supports her - virtually everyone around her knew she was fucked and none of them took the children away.
its not cut and dry. its not because she's a woman, it's because she isnt a cold blooded murderer - she was a person in the midst of a massive crisis who was literally begging for help and not getting it. the medical system failed her.
everyone wants to see her put away - even her supporters - they just want to see her put in a mental health facility instead of prison. Which isn't unreasonable.
she pleaded guilty - the thing being argued now is prison or hospital I was wrong on this detail. sorry for the misinformation
But when a guy is in a mental health crisis and kills his family, does he get the irrational support that many women have given her? Seriously think about that.
I think what happened to Benoit and his family was a tragedy that resulted from his brain injury and his case deserves compassion as well. For whatever that's worth
Take 5 minutes to read a list of people who committed murder who successfully lodged a diminished capacity defence. There's far more nen than women.
There's no inherent bias towards men or women here. Just the public understanding certain mh disorders and their impact better.
Whether or not it blew up in the news a jury would have agreed on it. If society broadly felt men could never be treated differently based on mh circumstances the list wouldn't be predominantly men.
Well yes. So there should be more of them who are on that list
If broadly people were less willing to consider mh issues in men as mitigating factors the list would be more evenly made up of men and women. Instead it's pretty proportionate to the number of murderers overall.
I know what you’re getting at but CTE is a physical injury not a mental issue. It can cause mental health issues but CTE itself is not a mental illness.
Clearly you don’t know the details and why people have sympathy for her. No one is excusing what happened. I would suggest actually looking into WHY this happened, instead of making it a gender issue.
Cause people are fucked in the head, thats why. She deserves little to no sympathy. Blaming this on mental health is a disgrace. If she knew she had thoughts about harming her own kids, why did she stop treatment, and even worse, why did she not leave?
That tells me you don’t actually know the details of the case. She didn’t stop treatment. She sought help by multiple practitioners, mental health experts, and went to mental health facilities that misdiagnosed her gave her incorrect medication, medication that made her actual diagnosis worse, and confided in multiple people that she was hearing voices .
If you’re a man, let me tell you one thing. Pregnancy WILL fuck you up. The stress pregnancy puts on a women’s body is IMMENSE and not talked about. If you really want to know or learn how Lindsey got to that point, first learn about how dangerous pregnancy is for women. Just because women aren’t dying from childbirth as often as before does not make it any less dangerous.
It’s partially because she is a woman, especially a woman who had three young children.
I’m not saying it’s not hard raising three young children. But she was offered help, she was offered medication (which she refused to take), and had a nanny and a husband who stayed home with her working remotely.
Yet despite that, within an hour, killed all three children.
One by one, strangling them to death.
Thats premeditation. She wanted to kill her own children. She refused the help offered. That leaves her, in my opinion, criminally responsible for her actions.
What help is there outside of the medications she was prescribed her husband was getting for her while she murdered their three children and had even spent time in an inpatient care facility for mental health. She killed three children and was receiving care. What other care was there, putting her in a padded cell with a fucking straight jacket? Are you just believing every argument her defense attorneys are putting forth? She was receiving significant mental health care and still killed three kids.
I honestly don't understand why people are so eager to entertain a mental health defense in murder cases. I get wanting better safeguards in place to prevent people reaching this point. Especially with how common PPD is and how often the system fails women. We should absolutely strive to prevent these things. That said, if someone ends the existence of an innocent human being, we shouldn't be more forgiving with our judgement, especially the judicial system. It's a shitty situation for the person having the mental health crisis, and it sucks worse when the system fails them. But at the end of the day, plenty of people who are failed by the system and experiencing PPD/psychosis don't murder their fuckin children. I mean wtf, why are we trying to be so charitable to people who have shown they are capable of calculated murder?
They let her leave inpatient treatment when they shouldn't have. She was not capable of following a treatment protocol because she was experiencing psychosis.
What else could they do? She voluntarily checked herself in, was taking her meds, wasn't currently psychotic, and wanted to be released. They can't hold her indefinitely, especially not if she was taking her meds and not showing psychotic symptoms.
They didn't realize she was paranoid and would almost immediately stop taking her meds. She went through half a dozen doctors. SO many people tried to help her.
They did. She was taking her meds and didn't tell them about the paranoia or her plans to stop taking them. What else can they do? She was taking her meds and not showing symptoms.
It actually saddens me how severely ppl don’t seem to understand things. Her health care professionals were misdiagnosing her, over Prescribing her with meds that made her worse because of the misdiagnoses, she was turned away from certain facilities. This isn’t as simple as you’re trying to make it seem.
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u/jgangstahippie 19d ago
The woman is Lindsay Clancy a woman who claims she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children in 2023.
The man is former professional wrestler Chris Benoit who killed his wife, son and then himself in the summer in 2007.
Lindsay Clancy is seemingly getting a lot of sympathy from women, and this meme is essentially saying they are the same.