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originally posted by: grandmakdw
Jail time in cases like this only make people like you happy.
She will most likely punish herself more in the long run than anyone else can punish her.
If you think someone should get jail time for it, and I don't disagree, it should be the social worker or whoever let her back on the street and did not hospitalize her , or the Aunt who let her move in and live with the baby. But probably the Aunt didn't know enough about postpartum psychosis to be held accountable. I actually think the social worker who let her on the street should be the one to go to jail as an accessory to murder.
The woman herself, was too mentally ill to be held responsible, especially after being diagnosed with psychosis and not locked up where she would be safe and her baby would be safe.
That is where the true blame lies, with whoever made the decision not to lock her up in a mental health facility until the psychosis was over, about a year.
originally posted by: grandmakdw
After the woman regains her sanity, in the vast majority of cases,
she will not relapse at all.
She may relapse if she has another child,
in which case she needs to be hospitalized again for a year.
Yes, let her go after she is sane and after she has completed intensive therapy for what she has done.
She was not responsible in this instance, and
normally I am the type of person who insists people take personal responsibility.
However, in this case the responsibility was with whoever knew of the diagnosis
and choose not to hospitalize her until she regained sanity.
Watkins was ordered to stay away from her daughter, but an aunt who received custody allowed Watkins to live with her, said Deters.
www.perthnow.com.au...
The disturbing crime comes just days after a Chicago grandmother was arrested for killing her seven-month-old granddaughter and then cutting the child’s throat with a power saw.