I am looking to see if a manslaughter, or even murder charge, could be brought up on a person for the following:
A 54 year old woman (who I will call Cassie) has been raising her 27 year old med student daughter's 4 year old twins since birth. The daugher (who I will call Angela) divorced the twin's father when they were a few months old. Angela moved in with her mother and leaves Cassie to watch the kids by herself weekdays while she lives in the dorms. Many weekends she does not come to her children at all, and simply stays at school which is 1.5 hours away. Recently, on one of the weekends Angela came to the house, she and her younger sister had a fight which became a physical fight. Although the younger sister threw the first hit, Angela had verbally instigated the fight and approached in a threatening manner. The next day she fights with her older brother. In response to losing a verbal arguement she nearly breaks his computer and throws some of his property. He returns the favor a while later by throwing some of her things outside. Angela, is in fact, notorius with her abrasive, rude, and selfish mannerisms to everyone in the family. Angela wants retribution, and she wants her mother Cassie to deal the punishment to the brother and sister. The brother lives in the finished basement with his wife and 2 small childeren. The younger sister is staying in a room upstairs for a few months while her husband completes Officer and Ranger school in the Army. Angela wants her mother to kick her sister and brother out of the house permanently so she does not have to see them when she drops in for her few hours or days every weekend to see her children. Cassie does not comply. Angela immediately removes the children from her mother's house and care and places them in the University daycare and says Cassie will never see the children unless she meets her demands. She had also gotten her car stuck in the snow by spinning out into a ditch during her tantrum and attempt to depart the house and Angela has her mother help dig her car out (this was very physically demanding on Cassie). During the next few days she renews her threats, keeps calling her mother on the phone, placing blame with the mother, etc. and making her cry; deliberately building as much stress as possible. Angela is the source of many other stressors but that would be a bit too much detail here.
So here is the question. Angela is just shy of getting her medical degree from an acclaimed university, she's gotten honors and awards, has an MD finacee, so has an intimate knowledge of medical conditions, causes and effects. She is well aware of her mother's poor heath. Cassie is overweight, has high blood pressure, and other medical problems. The family has repeatedly asked her to stop deliberately stressing the mother as everyone fears this will kill her. Angela knows well that it might but persists in her behavior.
If Cassie dies of stroke or heartattack during this crisis, can Angela be held accountable and brought up on charges of manslaughter or murder?
2007-02-26
09:23:23
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