Comments on: Woman Heading to Jail For Killing Six Newborns

By: mireee

mireee — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:34:45 +0000

Totally agree with you.

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By: Whit

Whit — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:46:39 +0000

Seriously. WTF are you even talking about? Grow up, and please realize that this is not a place, like Sydney said, to name call and pass unbelievably stupid and rash judgements. We discuss things in a normal, civil fashion. Please go somewhere else.

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By: Sydney

Sydney — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:09:35 +0000

A) Spare us the juvenile name calling, and

B) Please elaborate. The context of your question is somewhat vague.

By: Miss Malice

Miss Malice — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:45:14 +0000

I guess people just don’t want to think that a mother could do this without being mentally disturbed, but things like this happen all the time. There was a woman here who put her kid in the dryer and then you know set it going.

By: Zar

Zar — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:47:47 +0000

Anyone, that kills anyone outside of self-defense or an act of war, (which depending on how you look at it could be considered self-defense), is crazy. If you end another person’s life you are broken between the ears. Period. Now, with that being said if this was a man who had six dead newborns in his basement we wouldn’t even be debating whether or not his “sickness” gets him off the hook. Why is this human being treated differently than another?

By: The Wicked 7

The Wicked 7 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:19:07 +0000

We can speculate all we want, but the courts will have to decide her mental state in the end. I imagine there are hoards of details that we don’t know.
(Though I find it very hard to believe that an entirely sane woman would want to continually get pregnant just to kill her newborns. I’m not sure what the logical motive would be behind that).

By: Alzaetia

Alzaetia — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:12:09 +0000

I agree with what you’re saying as far as it applies to crazy women.
Andrea Yates, for example, asked for help all along. Her husband knew how unbalanced she was and at every turn he did things that harmed her mental health rather than doing what would help her. The people around her were destructive and drove her further into the insanity that led her to believe that she was saving her children’s souls by killing them when they were young. She was absolutely psychotic and the sane people around her should have helped her and her children.
I am still amazed that in the state of Texas a woman can go to jail for not stopping her abusive partner from also abusing her children but this man was treated like some kind of victim.

But this woman continued to murder her children and hide that from everybody. Over and over again. For years. Is that psychotic behavior? Was she out of touch with reality? It seems that she realized that she would be punished for what she was doing and so she hid it. That indicates a grasp of right and wrong. I’m sure she has mental health issues. But there’s a difference between a psychotic break and depression.

By: The Wicked 7

The Wicked 7 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:52:09 +0000

Here’s the thing:
Crazy mothers who want to kill their children are not deterred by capital punishment.
BECAUSE THEY’RE CRAZY.
They don’t possess the mental stability to contemplate their actions in relation to potential punishments.
There is no point in killing Lesage. She will not serve as an example to anyone. You could hold the most horrifying public execution imaginable, and still, mentally ill women will continue to harm their children. Because they are mentally ill.
If these sort of tragedies are to be prevented, then there needs to be a more public focus on mental health. Someone knew this woman was not all there, yet no one reported it. And if they had, would the social services exist to come to her home and provide her with counselling? Have her committed before she was able to cause harm to others?
Probably not. We’d far rather pour money into the corrections system to take care of the problem after the fact than to find ways to stop the problem from occurring in the first place.