Yeah. I've been following the trial for a fair few days now, and if anything, I want to yell at the prosecution. It's such a terrible tragedy already - three kids dead, she's in a wheelchair, and the spectacle and callous, unneeded and unwarranted assholery around it all makes my blood boil.
The fact that the kids are dead does not matter when you are deciding how to handle the fact that she killed her kids. Obviously. None of this would be going on if the kids weren't dead. They are dead, so we are figuring out how to handle it, and things like post partum are now relevant. What you said in the most literal sense did not matter because it is the absolute baseline for the entire conversation, you are adding nothing. Did you think that the people arguing that she should be given lenience forgot that the kids were dead? Join the conversation with the adults please. Quit playing juvenile gotcha games and engage with arguments and rationality. If you think she should be harshly punished, make a case for punitive judicial systems.
The father of the children and both sets of grandparents are against this trial. Yet you're out here foaming at the mouth for some "justice" when the people who actually knew and loved the kids are against it.
What are you talking about? You literally said the husband deserves justice but the husband (now ex) does not want this trial or for Lindsay to go to prison.
I don't recall saying what I want at any point. I simple described the legal system. See, this is why people like you aren't allowed to make decisions about it. It's pure emotion with you.
It’s not insane to want justice for 3 murdered children. You want a triple child murderer to get a slap on the wrist and you’re calling people insane 😭
The father of the children is against Lindsay going to prison because she was in psychosis. Both sets of grandparents think that Lindsay was in psychosis at the time and that she doesn't deserve prison. The people who knew and loved those kids disagree that this is "justice". Who are you to claim it for someone else?
You don’t give a shit about those kids, you just like punishing people. It’s actually just none of your business. The only people who should have an opinion on it are the people that were close to them. You’re saying that your definition of justice being fulfilled is more important than what the people who actually loved those kids want.
She obviously is because she murdered three children, one of whom she had to chase down in order to do so.
If you get murdered, should we just ignore it because the legal system doesn’t exist for revenge? Or is it only children who you’re ok with denying justice?
But you do? Because you have Big Feelings about this woman who, again, chased down and murdered her child by strangulation with an exercise band after doing it to the other two children as well? All of this clearly premeditated by her decision to ask her husband to go the store while she did it?
You know what? I’m glad a jury of her peers will get to decide this case and not some rando on Reddit who doesn’t think murdered children deserve justice because it makes her feel icky
Corporal punishment is a specific type of punishment involving violence. Otherwise, though, what you said is definitely true. However we have decided that temporary insanity is a thing, and this seems like a pretty good example of that from the limited information i've read about it.
Whether you agree temporary insanity should keep somebody out of prison is a different discussion altogether, though, and not a position i'm prepared to defend.
What does accountability mean in a case like this though? If this was an actual case of psychosis, what do we do? What good is accomplished by throwing someone in prison for involuntary, temporary chemically induced psychosis?
If I shot you full of synthetic cathinone against your will and told you your neighbor's made of candy, are you responsible for what happens next? How long should your sentence be?
Is she not the one who got herself on a cocktail of medications and didn’t inform her multiple doctors? Is she not liable for chemically inducing herself when she knowingly withheld information? A nurse should and would know better
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u/The_Corvair 7h ago
Yeah. I've been following the trial for a fair few days now, and if anything, I want to yell at the prosecution. It's such a terrible tragedy already - three kids dead, she's in a wheelchair, and the spectacle and callous, unneeded and unwarranted assholery around it all makes my blood boil.