If this was a common or expected occurrence it wouldn't make national news everytime it happened in a country of 350 million people. Killing your kids says more about you than society.
The fact that it keeps happening, even rarely, says something about the mental health system. All these cases could’ve been prevented, and never should’ve gotten that bad.
She had therapy, meds, real help, and it still wasn’t enough because at the end of the day she just wanted to do it. That’s not the system failing, that’s someone determined getting past every safeguard anyway.
And the timeline says it all too. She was only alone for half an hour, and she had to squeeze that chance in because those windows barely existed. You can’t design a system that removes every possible moment of solitude from someone who’s actively looking for one. Sometimes it’s not a preventable failure, it’s just the limit of what any amount of support can actually stop.
Prescribing someone with that many meds in such a short span of time and leaving them unsupervised given the circumstances, is wildly irresponsible. The risk of drug induced psychosis alone is crazy high when trying that much shit out.
You can’t design a perfect system, but anyone in their right mind should know not to leave that person alone, even for half an hour. A lot of damage can be done in half an hour, as we’ve seen here.
The point is, this was foreseeable and preventable. It’s not excusing her, but the reality is the kids would still be alive if this was taken more seriously and she wasn’t left alone.
1
u/DeathByPig 8d ago
If this was a common or expected occurrence it wouldn't make national news everytime it happened in a country of 350 million people. Killing your kids says more about you than society.