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A woman killed her child in the most terrible way.
[url= http://news.sky.com/story/1608854/mother-jailed-for-killing-daughter-in-microwave ]Truly awful[/url].
Read the title and couldn't read any further.
Words truly fail me
[url= http://abcnews.go.com/US/Depression/story?id=92935&page=1 ]why not go for the post natal depression defense [/url]?
Well she has to suffer from something to do what she did.
What she did was not the action of a normal rational individual.
it does seem, on the face of it, a classic case of post natal depression.
There's an important distinction to make here between postpartum psychosis and post-natal depression. Postpartum psychosis is much rarer than PND. PND might lead you to kill yourself, but it doesn't lead you to deliberately kill your child. PND doesn't have psychotic symptoms, it's very common, and it's **** horrible to live through. Associating extreme acts like this with it isn't helpful, it stigmatises a common and relatively treatable mental illness in an already vulnerable group, which makes it harder to help those suffering.
Interestingly the UK and many other countries differentiate legally between depression and pyschosis in cases like these, but the US does not, which is probably why the hacks reporting here throw around the term depression as if it were equal to psychosis.
From the meagre reporting there it definitely sounds like the woman in the OP case suffered a psychotic episode of some sort. She'll live with a terrible burden for the rest of her life, irrespective of any punishment she undergoes. I hope she gets the help she needs - unlikely in a US prison though. Terrible story.
@mintimperial: Thanks for the distinction. Mental illness is SO misunderstood, and it is important we get the terms right when understanding the headlines.