Filicide is So Gut Wrenching

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I read this story in the news yesterday and it saddened and irked me so I wanted to address it and discuss it. I'm sorry if this is triggering to anyone. The Suffolk County Sherriff's office reported in a news conference that deputies had been called out to an RV park, Lovey's Landing in Meridian, California(north-central part of the state) on January 5th by the manager. It seems that a resident of the park had gone to ask a mother about her son when the resident had not seen him around for quite some time. A fight had started and that is when the manager called 911. Responders had gone inside the trailer and found the dead body of the 11-year-old boy. Allegedly his mother had suffocated him and he had been left in the trailer for several days. When officers questioned the mother she seemed to be in a manic state as if perhaps she was on drugs. You can read the story below: There are all the usual questions. How can a mother do such a thing? Why the drugs? Etc. Suffocation is a very personal way to kill someone. What must have transpired before this death? How can a human be in the same area as a dead body and not do something? I find this type of thing so very hard to understand.