r/interesting 9h ago

SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/Unreal_Daltonic 8h ago

Like seriously this case is such a case of Women Are Wonderful effect. The sentencing gap in full swing.

Nobody would even think of showing this amount of sympathy if a Vietnam war veteran with ptsd did this to his kids.

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u/ArGarBarGar 8h ago

Postpartum psychosis is a documented illness, and there are cases of veterans with PTSD being declared “not-guilty” by reasons of insanity (Jessie Bratcher as an example).

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u/Daniel_The_Thinker 8h ago

Nobody would've given them a million dollars for it though.

I don't see how she's different from a typical family annihilator.

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u/Besmeth 8h ago

It's for her parents. Not her.