So this woman, who is clearly nuts, kills her five kids because she believes she's saving them from going to hell.
Everybody knew she was fucked up. She wouldn't talk, she tried to kill herself a couple of times, she picked her hair out until she had a bald spot, saw shit that wasn't there and heard voices that weren't there, and she TOLD people she was afraid she was going to hurt somebody.
What I want to know is WHY she's in prison for the rest of her life? Why did the people who KNEW she was fucked up let her go back out on the street and kill five kids? I say, send the shrinks to prison. Send her husband to prison. Send her whole damned community to prison. Everybody KNEW she was fucked up, people KNEW she was going to hurt somebody or kill somebody -- she was doing her fucking best to let somebody KNOW she was out of control and couldn't help what she was doing. Had somebody intervened, had somebody sent her to the hospital (because you CAN commit somebody, no matter what their age, if you have a reasonable believe that they pose a threat to themselves or others, and a couple of shrinks agree with you), gotten her some HELP, none of this would have happened; nobody'd be dead and nobody'd be in prison. She -- the screwed-up lady -- did her absolute best to tell people she was fucked up. What the hell is everybody else's excuse?
Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a human being.
~Helena*
"You want to know who killed Laura? YOU did..." --Bobby Briggs, "Twin Peaks."