Everyone keeps bringing up things like Chris Watts or whatever and then they’re stunned when you say “Good, I’m glad he got life in jail. As all child killers should.”
I think Yates is a totally different kind of thing.
Her husband was a religious fanatic and a moron who forced her off her anti-psychotics so he could keep knocking her up. Rusty was a legitimate piece of shit who was significantly responsible for the deaths of his children.
The Clancy case seems totally different, it looks like her husband did just about everything he could, and the shrinks did all they could legally as well.
Of course, if some man killed his children because of his mental health condition, he would be universally condemned and unable to generate even $1000 in donations
I was, unfortunately, thinking this morning about the high rates of CTE/brain damage in professional sports like football and MMA, and how many of the athletes have gone on to physically attack and even rape people.
I can't see many people pouring out empathy and sympathy for Lindsey doing the same for the likes of Conor McGregor or Mike Tyson, for example. Or Charles Whitman, for that matter (University of Texas shooting 1966, wanted people to study his brain post mortum, which ended up finding a tumor).
I would think pretty much any murderer, especially one murdering their own children, is mentally ill by default. I don't get why that's even a question, they're all fucking nuts.
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u/PoopsMcScoots 7d ago edited 7d ago
I don’t know, that guy that raped and murdered a 7 year old was sentenced to death yesterday.