What do ya think? "Mentally Ill" Villanova professor slits her Down Syndrome baby's neck, then commits suicide...

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DougK62

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Mentally ill people that kill others don't deserve friggin memorials. How pathetic :rolls;
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: iamme
i don't know enough about post-partum depression to make judgement in this case.

making a memorial to raise awareness of post-partum sounds like a good idea. if she has contributed to the university and her profession with lots of research, then she deserves recognition.

unfortunately, there's a baby that died at the hands of it's own mother, that i can't get past.

She comitted suicide in jail. If she had still been alive in jail, would she have still gotten a memorial?

Uh... no? Common sense much? MEMorial. Rememberance. Usually only dedicated to dead people.

If the memorial is constructed for the purpose of remembering all of the GOOD things she did for the UNIVERSITY then I see absolutely no problem with it. Some of you need to supress your rage a little bit and understand that the memorial isn't to remember how cool she was for killing her diseased baby, but for her contributions to society and the university before her life got derailed by the pregnancy. It's obvious she was well loved by many people that knew her MUCH BETTER THAN ANY OF YOU DO. So calm down, won't you? Thank you.

Honoring someone who defied the university's own mission statement by killing her helpless baby and then herself? It'd be one thing to honor someone who died of unnatural causes (car accident, some freak explosion in a lab, etc.) but to have a memorial for someone that killed their child and THEN committed suicide?

"The sacredness of each person"

And this is a Catholic school too? Sounds out of place to me...
 

Jfrag Teh Foul

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Jul 18, 2001
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She sorta turned her "Good Neighbor" card in when she decided to kill her baby. If she truly deserved anything it would be the same treatment her baby received... pre-suicide of course.
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
She didn't kill that baby because she was ill and she will enjoy a special place in hell.

I love my baby, but to end its suffering I am going to slide a sharpened blade across its neck and watch its life drain away all over the carpet...

If I went to Villanova, I'd be doing my zoo monkey impression when I went near that memorial.

Oh... because you're a woman who's had a baby and experienced postpartum depression, you know exactly what she was going through, right?
Wait, I'm pretty sure you're a dude. So you can't say that she wasn't ill.
This is certainly not the only case of a woman killing her child/children while experiencing postpartum depression. That could be why it's recognized as a legal defense in 29 countries.
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Mwilding
She didn't kill that baby because she was ill and she will enjoy a special place in hell.

I love my baby, but to end its suffering I am going to slide a sharpened blade across its neck and watch its life drain away all over the carpet...

If I went to Villanova, I'd be doing my zoo monkey impression when I went near that memorial.

Oh... because you're a woman who's had a baby and experienced postpartum depression, you know exactly what she was going through, right?
Wait, I'm pretty sure you're a dude. So you can't say that she wasn't ill.
This is certainly not the only case of a woman killing her child/children while experiencing postpartum depression. That could be why it's recognized as a legal defense in 29 countries.
If you are in the midst of the widely recognized greatest experience of a woman's life and it is making you miserable, you should seek help, not sharpen the cutlery...

If she had given the kid sleeping pills or smothered it with a pillow, that would be one thing, but to take a knife and slit your baby's throat crosses lines not drawn by chemical imbalance alone...
 

mobobuff

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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Mwilding
She didn't kill that baby because she was ill and she will enjoy a special place in hell.

I love my baby, but to end its suffering I am going to slide a sharpened blade across its neck and watch its life drain away all over the carpet...

If I went to Villanova, I'd be doing my zoo monkey impression when I went near that memorial.

Oh... because you're a woman who's had a baby and experienced postpartum depression, you know exactly what she was going through, right?
Wait, I'm pretty sure you're a dude. So you can't say that she wasn't ill.
This is certainly not the only case of a woman killing her child/children while experiencing postpartum depression. That could be why it's recognized as a legal defense in 29 countries.
If you are in the midst of the widely recognized greatest experience of a woman's life and it is making you miserable, you should seek help, not sharpen the cutlery...

If she had given the kid sleeping pills or smothered it with a pillow, that would be one thing, but to take a knife and slit your baby's throat crosses lines not drawn by chemical imbalance alone...

Death is fine when there's no blood involved, eh?

 

NFS4

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Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Mwilding
She didn't kill that baby because she was ill and she will enjoy a special place in hell.

I love my baby, but to end its suffering I am going to slide a sharpened blade across its neck and watch its life drain away all over the carpet...

If I went to Villanova, I'd be doing my zoo monkey impression when I went near that memorial.

Oh... because you're a woman who's had a baby and experienced postpartum depression, you know exactly what she was going through, right?
Wait, I'm pretty sure you're a dude. So you can't say that she wasn't ill.
This is certainly not the only case of a woman killing her child/children while experiencing postpartum depression. That could be why it's recognized as a legal defense in 29 countries.
If you are in the midst of the widely recognized greatest experience of a woman's life and it is making you miserable, you should seek help, not sharpen the cutlery...

If she had given the kid sleeping pills or smothered it with a pillow, that would be one thing, but to take a knife and slit your baby's throat crosses lines not drawn by chemical imbalance alone...

How is sleeping pills or pillow smothering any "better." It's still murder:confused:
 

GasX

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Feb 8, 2001
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Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Mwilding
She didn't kill that baby because she was ill and she will enjoy a special place in hell.

I love my baby, but to end its suffering I am going to slide a sharpened blade across its neck and watch its life drain away all over the carpet...

If I went to Villanova, I'd be doing my zoo monkey impression when I went near that memorial.

Oh... because you're a woman who's had a baby and experienced postpartum depression, you know exactly what she was going through, right?
Wait, I'm pretty sure you're a dude. So you can't say that she wasn't ill.
This is certainly not the only case of a woman killing her child/children while experiencing postpartum depression. That could be why it's recognized as a legal defense in 29 countries.
If you are in the midst of the widely recognized greatest experience of a woman's life and it is making you miserable, you should seek help, not sharpen the cutlery...

If she had given the kid sleeping pills or smothered it with a pillow, that would be one thing, but to take a knife and slit your baby's throat crosses lines not drawn by chemical imbalance alone...

How is sleeping pills or pillow smothering any "better." It's still murder:confused:
While still horrible, sinful, & reprehensible, the former methods are a tad bit more humane than throat slashing... She said herself it was to put the baby out of its misery. The method leads me to conclude she is full of shit.
 

Nitemare

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Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Maybe that memorial was meant to be a comfort to the saddened and grieving people left behind in this tragic situation.

Yes I imagine her daughter will be very sad that her mom killed herself....No wait, dead filleted babies can't be sad...

She is fvckin evil and roasting now, good riddance

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for the baby