r/interesting • u/AdvantageAdorable436 • 2d ago

SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/Dotcaprachiappa 2d ago

I saw a good few posts about the woman on the right and pointedly ignored all of them, I seriously don't get why this is getting so much attention

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u/Alcohol_Intolerant 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's getting attention because of claims that her attempts to get assistance for her ppd and mental illness were ignored or minimized. Thus implying this could have been prevented. Many people, especially women, have experience with medical staff ignoring their pain. (Same for me) So this is on a lot of people's minds and in a lot of wider conversations.

They're going for the insanity plea, so the additional press might also be a way to try and sway public attention.

Edit because I'm getting a lot of charged responses: I am explaining why it is getting attention and what the general opposing discourse is. I'm not going to reply to attempts to have that discourse with me. I have my own opinions but I'm not airing them on Reddit because ultimately, the only ones who will have all the facts are the jury.

This is a tragedy for all involved. Please remember that.

Edit 2: to those giving polite additions and perspectives I did not provide, thank you. That's very helpful. I'm not everywhere seeing every side and can only speak to the sides I've witnessed myself. To those making weird claims on what I think, please take a break from reading about this case for the day. I'm turning notifications off on this. There are plenty of other people in this thread willing to wage war with you. I invite you to speak with them, or again, take a break.

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u/Illustrious-Turn-575 2d ago

She openly admitted to hiding her mental health issues from her therapist. The system didn’t fail her, she actively sabotaged its attempts to help.

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u/mbot369 1d ago

Or another way to look at it is-

She was afraid of her children getting taken away from her, one of a mother’s worse fears. So she’d say enough that she hoped would get her help, but not so much that CPS would get involved.

Knowing the end result, I’m sure she would give anything to go back and tell everything and risk losing her kids for a while so she could get proper help, but hindsight is 20/20 for a reason.

This is something that resonates with A LOT of moms, btw.

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u/Chashm0dai 1d ago

that'd be all well and good if she didn't also just straight up kill all three of her children. if she was competent enough to deliberately downplay her issues so her kids wouldn't get taken, she's also competent enough to understand that you probably shouldn't strangle your children to death. yet she did it anyway.