Mother pours gasoline on her 3 kids and lights them on fire!!!?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_re_us/children_burned;_ylt=Al9t0TqiMZ_KaNXgF8KNsu6s0NUE

Watch her get off on insanity plea like Andrea Yates and all the other mothers in Texas recently. The sad thing is ladies like this know other mothers have gotten off on insanity so they say to themselves, " I'll just do the same and be rid of my children" There is no accountability for their actions.

Thought on this?

And Sashali, If a father burned his 3 kids with gasoline would you say, " Unless you have inside information you shouldn't comment"? No, you d think he should be locked up for life, how is this any different?

Ashely!!!!! Scott Peterson was sentenced to life in prison. And when men committ these acts they are rightfully destroyed by society.

Also Ashley, you say how can I make it "another isolated look what a mother did incident"? Because its not isolated, there is a pattern of mother's doing this and pleading insanity.

Answer 1

I hope the mother faces the full brunt of the law and gets life.
There's just simply no excuse, mental illness or not.
Around 9 years ago after giving birth to my first child, I had depression so severe that I was completely out of touch with reality, hearing voices/screaming all the time, could not function(catatonic) and was extremely paranoid, it was post-partum depression with psychosis.
I would've killed myself first before ever laying a hand on my kids. No matter how ill a person is, they still know deep down inside the difference between right and wrong.

Answer 2

Those poor children. I am a mother and I could not imagine even wanting to light my children on fire. I hope that she does not get off. They need to put her under the jail. This was a heinous act that is a crime that she committed. In terms of her pleading insanity,well that's another subject all together. If she was insane at the time that does not change the fact that she killed her children and should be convicted for murder. When she goes to trial we have to remember that it is up to a jury to convict her. Hopefully, they will and not let her off because she is considered to be mentally ill.

Where I disagree with you is that feminists control the outcome of what happens in court. Goodness, according to you and many others on this site you give way too much credit to feminists for controlling everything. You may perceive it that way but that is not the reality. Haven't you noticed that in every movement the media will sensationalize the ones who are extremists, so much so that we then begin to think that they are what that movement is all about when in reality those voices are not what the majority believe.

Answer 3

I work with kids and I seriously don't see how anyone could want to do this sort of thing to them. The woman should be prosecuted and given the maximum sentence the state allows for horrendous crimes like this. This is just plain sick.

By the way, Yates finally did get off: "Yates initially was convicted of capital murder, but that verdict was overturned on appeal".

Answer 4

Oh my goodness, that's terrible. I don't know why so many people here need to bring Liberal vs Conservative elitist arguement nto this. A kid got set on fire, that's terrible. And who said he was Conservative? He's 13 and probably has no political opinion at all.

Answer 5

How could you do that to your own children. I don't give a damn what psychosis you are suffering from, nothing excuses that.

I am sure she will get away with some insanity plea. Fine, if these women are so insane and dangerous lock them up and throw away the key.

Answer 6

I agree with you!!!!! Insanity has become the answer to a lot of wrong doing.
Well, what I have to add to that is.....................

IF YOU ARE THAT INSANE TO KILL SOMEONE ELSE.
WHY DON'T YOU JUST KILL YOUR OWN SELF INSTEAD?
BUT SINCE YOU DID NOT THINK ABOUT HURTING OR KILLING YOURSELF, GEES, DOES THAT REALLY MAKE YOU INSANE? OR ARE YOU JUST STUPID, MAD OR JUST CRUEL?

If you hurt yourself, you will be missed and life goes without you. But when you decide to take away somebody else's life for no reason then you are a selffish and cruel being.

I feel your pain!

Answer 7

No surprise there.

Women in today's society feel so privileged thanks to feminism, and have such a "privilege complex" that they think they can get away with murder. They watch in the media as other women murder their husbands, murder their kids, and watch female teachers commit statuatory rape on young boys, and get away with it; that they begin to feel that they can get away with the same crimes.

I won't be surprised if her sentence is something in the range of 6 months house arrest and 200 hours of community service. And she'll probably have to visit a parole officer for a couple years. In essence, "a slap on the wrist".

I think some of the feminists here that are deciding to be against the mother, are mainly doing so because the three children she burned were all female.

If the mother had burned three young boys, the feminists would either be totally silent on the issue, or support the mother and claim she was just "traumatized" and that she needs help. The feminists would probably put the blame on the male children victims, blaming testosterone or the "Y chromosome" like they usually do.

P.S.: Here's another link of a woman that tried to kill her son: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20775359/


I wonder how many of these homicidal women won child custody in cases from the father of their children, because the sexist feminist system thinks that women are better parents than men? Going by statistics, I'll bet it's a lot.

Answer 8

I agree with the poster who wondered why the families failed to notice that this woman was dangerous. I saw an interview with Yates' hubby, and after her fourth child was born, she suffered from postpartum psychosis - enough that she was suicidal and required hospitalization. This may have been partly due to her hubby's conviction that they needed to all live in a tiny trailer and homeschool. So what does he do? Hire a part-time housekeeper? Switch careers to spend more time at home? See that she receives proper medical care and go in for a vasectomy? Nope. He gets her preggers again, and barely notices when she does not even get proper medication (Haldol) after showing the same symptoms of psychosis. How anyone could feel sorry for a guy like that is beyond me.

I'll bet money that this woman showed major signs of being crazy - the article says that her hubby remarked that she "must not have taken her medication". It was his responsibility as a father to intervene BEFORE this happened. This is not a gender thing. I would say the same in reverse. Just think of Kelsey Smith-Briggs, whose mother allowed her husband to physically abuse the two year old to death. In my mind, she was the one who really failed the child.

This is so sad. I wish someone would have prevented it. I read the article with my jaw hanging open. That woman needs to be kept locked away, away from the rest of the world.

Answer 9

I am sorry about those kids. They should not have to go through pain and suffering because their mother felt she had to do this. I hope she gets a very tough judge and throw the book at her so hard that she should never see freedom again. I hope these kids have a support system to help them through this horrible time. Is there anyway we can send cards or something for the kids to cheer them up and let them know people are praying for them? God bless those kids.

Answer 10

Actually, you need to read the article closely. The mother set herself on fire, too. A bit different from the Andrea Yates incident.