Murdering your disabled child..........

i was really touched to read this post. i havent heard of the news and still looking for it over the net now. i also had a disabled daughter (with arnold chiari malformation type 2) but she has already joined the Creator last January aging 1 year and 6mos. yes it's really hard to cope with child's need and behavior but being a parent you are suppose to sacrifice to give the best to your child specially in Naomi's case. she needs a lot of love, care and understanding. if she can't deal with the situation anymore other option is to give the child to the social welfare custody.there she will be taken cared of and her needs may be provided.

Murder is a murder, there's no tolerating term against it, especially that a mother who has the heart to kill her own child even she is disabled child, a child has a right to live, and no one may take someone live ... i know it's hard, but she must accept it whatever God has give us a child ... she must live with it ...

I know that in the days of ancient Sparta, babies and children who were not healthy were thrown in the fire or left for the wolves because they were not expected to survive. Today, we humans to do not have to resort to that. If you have a child that you cannot take care, then give him or her up for adoption, put them in a rehab center, or a group home. Some single mothers, not all, who have children with severe disabilites do put their children in homes because they cannot take care of them 24/7. The state will provide care for these people. Honestly, women should not have to resort to killing a child just because he or she is not normal or healthy. We are not living in ancient Sparta, we do not have to kill our children because they are not normal or healthy.

this is really a thoughful problem. i was shocked by the result. but i can feel the mother's helplessness. anyway, the girl who is disabled. that's not the falut of both the girl and her monther. it's destiny. since destiny has decided all. we can do nothing except help the desabled girl go out of difficulty. murdering is a big mistake. any one can take away other's life except god. i feel sad at thew news again.

OWH MY GOSH,,, what is going on with her? owh my gosh it is such a disaster.. in between, i have heard about loads of worse cases than that...i have heard about a mother who put her baby child who was only few months old in the laundry machine !!! it such a horrible thought...owh gosh! Smiley,

The woman is a monster. First of all, it was not that she couldn't cope like she had a hard time caring for her. She was embarassed of the fact that her child had MILD cerebral palsy. Second of all, she was drinking a lot and cheating on her husband. The marriage was obviously in trouble, her husband obviously loved the little girl, divorce and custody granted to the father would have solved everything. There is NO WAY to ever ever justify the cold blooded murder of an innocent 4 year old child. I have clinical depression and two years ago I was diagnosed with DID as a result of childhood abuse. I also have 4 children ages 13 to 10. It is NOT easy for me ever, but I would never even consider killing my children. In my opinion the sentence was too light. The woman only got 15 years. I think she should have gotten life at the very least. After all that little girl will not be able to fall in love, get married, or experience anything. Granted a child murderer is not going to have an easy time of it in jail. I hope she gets the professional help she needs though and realizes just what a disgusting and horrendous thing she has done to her own daughter.

I would rather take my own life then the life of my own child. thats just how my thinking is. i could never imagine doing harm to my child like that no mater the circumstances. but i wasn't in her shoes either. i'm blessed to have 2 healthy children. i can imagine it was tough for her and if i were in her shoes and i was standing trial, i would probably plead guilty and want to be punished. i wouldn't want anything less. if i had to live with the guild of killing my own child, i'd probably want to die to.

A lot of parents have to deal with children with disabilities such a cerebral palsy, but do they all go and murder their child because they can't deal with it? No, they don't, they cope and deal with it like any mother should. Some people are not fit to deal with such things, but i don't think murdering your child is a sound option. Deep down I'm saying let the lady fry,because i just can't come to terms with how a mother can do this..it's just sickening But on the other hand i also think, Let her live..living with this on her mind for the rest of her life is punishment enough.

whatever may be at last it was nothing else than murder. that too she murdered her child. i have seen the parents of disabled children have a hard time. she was unable to cope with it.

[i]Hi scorpio, I tried the link but it says not available, I do know if this is my connection..ANyway, I haven't heard this story but encounter the same story recently in our Country! It is really very sad and awful! I wonder if any of the Family were there for her to support her morally and spiritually to cope up with the problem and to encourage her about life...I know there are many people who are in this situation and wish this will not happen again and instead, they will search for any organizations who are helping these people![/i]

Shedding innocent blood will bring curses. If she could not cope with a disabled child she could hand over to others like the Social Welfare Department. So much of innocent blood are shed nowadays through abortions and murders. We are now living in the last days and I expect more of such crimes.

I tried the link but it wasn't available, but according to your discussion and from what I can tell this is a horrific story. As a mother I can't imagine killing my own child, especially in such a terrible suffering kind of way. But having said that, I have no idea what the physical, mental,emotional and financial demands are to raise a severely mentally or physically handicapped child. It's not that hard for me to imagine that not everyone would be equipped to deal with this on a full time basis. Its pretty easy for us to say that we would handle this situation different, but I can only pray that I would be able to handle. None of know what our breaking point is and when we get to that breaking point what will happen. I pray that she was mentally ill, and did not take her childs life out of selfishness. Her life will forever be hell as she had to watch her ill child that she could only do so much to help and now she must forever live with the fact that she killed her child. No matter if she was mentally ill or not, I think that she should not "get off" on the charges, as there's no getting around the fact that she took a life, a baby that she gave birth to.

I had not heard this story but can not imagine things being so bad that you would murder your own child. I can not even think of causing harm to any child, let alone my own. I think that it is a horrible crime. This child was defensless and as any child does looks to their parents for love and support, they do not expect for you to cause them harm. I for one am really tired of people committing horrible crimes and trying to get out of being responsible for it by claiming temporary insanity or not of sound mind. I am sorry but if you are killing another human being and your life is not being threatened then yes you are not right in the head but that does not mean that you should not be held responsible for your actions.

It never ceases to amaze me the selfishness of women today. They don't want to be bothered with a child so their solution to their problem is to kill it. It saddens me to think what women have become.

The mother had to bear the pain on both ends. If she didnt kill her child, she would have to see her suffer throught the life that the daughter lived. Now that she has killed the child she is facing charges and is again suffering. There was los for the mother on both ends...she had nothing to gain. being a mother is such a difficult task. You would love your child so much that you would hate to even se a scratch on the child, it would hurt you in your heart. Imagine her looking at her daughter everyday suffering with pain and discomfort. Dont get me wrong, i am not saying that she did the right thing by killing her daughter, but what i am trying to say is that it is so dificult for a mother to choose between a daughter who is suffering everyday of her life AND Silencing her (alteast she would not suffer if she was not alive). It would not matter to her what the courts decision would be as i think she would be content that alteast her daughter is at peace now!! You never know what goes on in a mothers head and heart when she sees her child suffer so much.

Anyone that gets caught committing a crime has to face whatever consequences come their way. I don't see how anyone can murder their own child. But I also can not put myself in their shoes. There is not telling what this woman was thinking or feeling at the time. She obviously needed help and it is a shame that no one saw this.