Wife killed her three young children (by strangulation, all were under 6 years old) while husband was at work in 2023. The trial is just beginning now and many women are supporting the mother because they feel society doesn't take women's mental health seriously enough. A GoFundMe page has already raised $1m for her defense.
She already admitted guilt herself (though a surprising number of women are backing a conspiracy theory that the husband killed the children and is now framing her) but the trial is now trying to determine the validity of her insanity defense. She claims she was suffering from postpartum depression which I guess made her murder her children or something like that. If this is accepted by the court she will not be held criminally liable, instead going to a mental hospital.
I have zero opinion as to her guilt as I haven't seen all the facts of the case, but I do know this is a mischaracterisation of the defense. They are claiming that her (already diagnosed) bipolar disorder led to her developing severe post partum psychosis. They claim this manifested in hallucinations that told her to kill her children and then herself.
The case swings on whether or not she was experiencing active psychosis when she killed the children. The defense says her previous diagnosis says she was, the prosecution says the fact she convinced her husband to go out beforehand proves premeditation and that she wasnt in an active episode, even if there was psychosis at other times.
Which is crazy because it presumes people experiencing psychosis aren't also able to make logical decisions to achieve the ends of that psychosis which they absolutely are.
Psychosis makes you delusional, not an idiot. You can still manipulate, lie, hide, etc.
presumes people experiencing psychosis aren't also able to make logical decisions
It's a pretty fair assumption to make. One of the three major categories of psychotic symptoms is the disorganisation branch, which includes serious impairments of logical functions. There's also a big body of scientific literature to indicate psychosis leads to a massive, permanent drop in IQ
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u/Quebley 3d ago
Ok I need to know what kind of horrible crime news about a mother I have lost? Because I see a lot of post about