Heartbreaking

[Artemis Windsong]

I heard on the news where a woman was taken by ambulance from her home in a rural small town in July.  She has now been charged with murder because her newborn daughter was found drowned in the toilet.

The mothers who are alone and have no or few people to help them weighs on me.  I don't know a solution.

Someone needs to check and talk with women on what to expect.  

[Tennesseer]

Artemis-I can't find anthing on your story though a mother here in Memphis last week stabbed her two young sons to death (2 and 6 years old) because voices in her head told her to do so. She apparently suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

Parents suffering with mental illness and with homebound children need to be closely watched.

Mother says 'the voices' told her to kill her kids

[Artemis Windsong]

bismarcktribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/bowman-woman-charged-with-murder/article_f6d7cd3c-0123-11e3-81df-001a4bcf887a.html

It was the bath tub not the toilet.  I am sure there is more to the story than is in the article.

These are so sad.  I think if someone had helped these mothers in some way this wouldn't have happened.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Aug 8, 2013 19:39:40 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Artemis-I can't find anthing on your story though a mother here in Memphis last week stabbed her two young sons to death (2 and 6 years old) because voices in her head told her to do so. She apparently suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

Parents suffering with mental illness and with homebound children need to be closely watched.

Mother says 'the voices' told her to kill her kids

Well, we let the ACLU declare everything 'free expression' and we opened the doors of the mental institutions so there you have it- wackos running wild.  And voting.

[Tennesseer]

Aug 11, 2013 8:59:41 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Aug 8, 2013 19:39:40 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Artemis-I can't find anthing on your story though a mother here in Memphis last week stabbed her two young sons to death (2 and 6 years old) because voices in her head told her to do so. She apparently suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

Parents suffering with mental illness and with homebound children need to be closely watched.

Mother says 'the voices' told her to kill her kids

Well, we let the ACLU declare everything 'free expression' and we opened the doors of the mental institutions so there you have it- wackos running wild.  And voting.

Then you should thank the ACLU for allowing you to be able to vote.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Aug 11, 2013 9:21:26 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Aug 11, 2013 8:59:41 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Well, we let the ACLU declare everything 'free expression' and we opened the doors of the mental institutions so there you have it- wackos running wild.  And voting.

Then you should thank the ACLU for allowing you to be able to vote.

But seriously.

[Artemis Windsong]

The latest news report restated the baby was in the toilet.  The mother was the only person in that room until the emergency people entered. 

I talked with some friends on why people don't help or check up.  They just don't.  Some people have absolutely no one.  One woman said she knew nothing about at least 3 of her neighbors.  I know very little about my neighbors; and if I don't show up for club meetings or league, no one checks.

I am in 2 groups that you have to sign up or show you won't be there.  So that's a soft check.

Landlords can do nothing more than knock on the door.

I make a note of when I try to reach relatives by telephone whether I connect or not.  Most of them live too far away that if something happened I couldn't help other than calling rescue.

I do understand why people keep to themselves and don't get involved.

[Deleted]

Another soft check we have in our neighborhood (I live in a neighborhood watch area) is to see who's NOT setting their trashcans out for pick-up. It is how we found out our elder neighbor had shoulder surgery.. 

The story is a sad one.

I remember a woman who used to come into the gym I belonged to, telling everyone she how she had no one in her life, that if she didn't come in on her normal days to please check up on her. I don't know if the gym ever had to, but the thought of not having anyone, sounds so alone and lonely in such a big world.. 

[workpublic]

The latest news report restated the baby was in the toilet. The mother was the only person in that room until the emergency people entered.

what happened to the father? at some point she had at least one other person in her life

[Artemis Windsong]

The father has not been revealed.  Maybe she doesn't know who it is.  The articles also didn't say if anyone else was present in the house with her.  Usually they will say who was around, if the person had other children or someone.

I don't know if I'll be able to keep up with the story or not.  The further tragedy is a potential adoptive family.  I am the most disturbed by that.  

[weltschmerz]

A newborn found dead in a trash can at a Louisville Kohl’s last week would be alive if the 29-year-old mother had “provided basic care,” Louisville Metro Police said Thursday.

Jessica D. Price, of the 400 block of Coral Ridge Road in Shepherdsville, is accused of hiding the baby in a trash can and going home after giving birth in a bathroom at the department store where she worked, police said.

www.courier-journal.com/article/20130815/NEWS10/308150026/Police-say-baby-found-Kohl-s-trash-would-alive-mother-provided-basic-care-?nclick_check=1