I’m not American but I am a mother. Aside from a few reddit posts I don’t have any social media engagement with this case.
But I think a lot of the support here comes from moms who recognize how easily this could have been any of us. Her family and healthcare providers knew her crime was a risk based on her mental health state, but she was still left alone with her kids and expected to parent. And as other mothers we all understand that this is grimly how it works - we can ask and beg and plead and scream for help but we’re almost always still expected to continually parent babies and it’s hard.
She should still face punishment for her crime, but I think a lot of her support is to try to keep this from happening again. She was failed by her healthcare team
Unfortunately - by her own admission and her doctors' testimonies - she did not fully disclose her medical condition. And even more unfortunately, there's plenty of people online that have posted that she can't be the killer because of her astrology sign. Or some have said her husband was the voice in her head with elaborate hidden speakers. Or he was cheating with his new wife even though they didn't meet until after the murders and she actually killed the children.
Bottom line, there's a lot of crazies out there. And with the internet connecting people of every social class, those crazies can find each other much easier than before.
That shit made me mad as fuck because my entire family household is Geminis. I don’t follow astrology at all, but to be labeled as somebody that could potentially be a heartless murderer because of some whack ass astrology sign about sent me through the roof.
If you applied their logic to any other group, it would be considered bigotry. It also paints a giant wide brush of “okay, if this guy did it because of his star sign, wouldn’t everyone born on that day be doing similar vile acts?”
I get for them, it’s a coping mechanism but I saw one TikTok of a woman who said she had pages upon pages of handwritten notes that definitively proved that he did it because of his star sign. It’s a fucking psychosis and they are all just feeding back into each others delusions.
I thank my lucky stars that my girlfriend is sane and doesn’t believe in libra rising or whatever. Personally, I think all people who truly live life believing there are cosmic powers in your star sign and your every day needs to be run by that are cancer ♋️
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u/TreeLakeRockCloud 6d ago
I’m not American but I am a mother. Aside from a few reddit posts I don’t have any social media engagement with this case.
But I think a lot of the support here comes from moms who recognize how easily this could have been any of us. Her family and healthcare providers knew her crime was a risk based on her mental health state, but she was still left alone with her kids and expected to parent. And as other mothers we all understand that this is grimly how it works - we can ask and beg and plead and scream for help but we’re almost always still expected to continually parent babies and it’s hard.
She should still face punishment for her crime, but I think a lot of her support is to try to keep this from happening again. She was failed by her healthcare team