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Originally posted by Englishlush
I guess I come at a slightly different viewpoint not having children but I think it makes more sense to send her to a mental asylum than a prison. As for the husband not hearing the screams......how many of you have heard screams while children are playing in their nearby back gardens or the street. If a child screamed repeatedly then most of us would go to investigate, but once or twice? I do not think many people would think it was more than kids playing silly buggers.

Actualy as a parent I can tell my children's cries from any other. However my husband can sleep through it. Did these people not have neighbors? I doubt they thought the lady was out there playing catch with her kids.

We have a case here in Colorado right now about a woman who drowned her two kids last October. She also is using insanity as a defense.

It just makes me sick to even dwell on for too long. There is no way any woman could be anything but insane and harm her children like this. However using that as a defense isn't fare to anyone, not the women, not the children, and not the families.