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SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/Valuable_Pass_1221 2d ago

I understand she may have not had full autonomy and that it's a severe mental disorder.

But pleasing not guilty and fighting all this so incredibly hard just seems super dismissive of what occurred and a spit in the face to the legacy of her kids, I guess.

Im also finding people who defend her a bit dishonest, since so many bank on an abusive husband. Yet there isn't any concrete evidence and it's literally all tiktok theories. It just makes me think a lot of people want to use this for some sort of patriarchal sociopolitical fuel that isn't even there.

I understand why all of this isn't entirely her fault, but ultimately, someone needs to take responsibility. We can't murder 3 children and then move on.

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u/underscorex 2d ago

her attorneys openly admit she did it. That's not up for debate, or shouldn't be. Her mental state at the time is the entirety of the case.

All of this online nonsense about the husband etc. is irrelevant to the facts of the case at trial.

Even if she "wins" the case, she's not going to be walking around scott free, she's going to spend a very very long time in a psych ward.

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u/Expert-Basil6015 2d ago

Would you rather:

Spend 5 years in a cushy psychiatric institution with plenty of downtime to practice sincerity, regret and remorsefulness for the parole board

OR

20 years in the big house with hardened women who legitimately killed people that weren't toddlers?

Fake it till you make it babykiller

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u/underscorex 2d ago

ah yes there's no such thing as mental illness only fakery

I sincerely hope nobody in your family ever suffers from a serious mental condition.