Why are people like this

[urso8up]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/23/sev....ap/index.html


When a mother admitted killing her baby daughter by severing the child's arms this week, she joined a high-profile list of Texas women with histories of mental illness who have killed their children in gruesome fashion.

The state has had at least four similar cases in recent years. Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family's Houston bathtub in 2001. (Full story)

Deanna Laney bashed her three sons' skulls with rocks last year, killing two and maiming a toddler. She said God told her to do it. (Full story)

A mother from suburban Dallas drowned her daughters last fall, and a woman in Brownsville is accused of helping her common-law husband behead her three children.

In all the cases, the women had some sort of mental illness in their past.

The killings have been brutal, but legal and psychiatric experts say such cases are no more common here than in other states.

They note that several factors have caused Texas to get more attention on the issue, including intense media coverage following the Yates case that may have created an illusion that Texas has more mothers killing children.

"Texas seems to be a lightning rod," said George Parnham, the Houston attorney who defended Yates. "I don't necessarily go with the idea that we're wackos down here."

Dena Schlosser, 35, was charged with capital murder Monday after calmly telling a 911 operator that she had cut off the arms of 11-month-old Margaret. Police found Schlosser sitting in her living room, covered in blood, a church hymn playing in the background.

Schlosser's husband, John, told an official with Texas' Family and Protective Services that his wife had referenced a Bible scripture the night before the killing and said she wanted to "give her children to God," according to an affidavit that led a judge to award the agency temporary custody of the couple's two older children.

Schlosser had a history of postpartum depression, a disorder that can occur in women after they give birth.

Her mental history and her 911 confession are similar to Yates. And the method Schlosser used shared the bizarre, brutal nature of Laney's rocks and Yates' systematic drowning.

"To actually sever the arms suggests something special was going on," said psychiatrist Phillip Resnick, who testified in the trials of Laney and Yates. "It suggests on its face that there was some specialized psychotic thinking, but you just don't know."

Yates, who had a history of schizophrenia and postpartum depression and said the devil prompted her to kill her children, was convicted of capital murder and is serving a life sentence. Laney was acquitted of capital murder by reason of insanity after psychiatrists agreed psychotic delusions kept her from knowing right from wrong.

Authorities discovered a grisly scene at the Schlossers' apartment.

An officer had to remove a knife from Schlosser's hand, according to a search warrant affidavit released Tuesday. The baby was found in her crib, both arms severed at the shoulder, and died at a hospital a short time later.

Authorities said the two older daughters in the family, ages 6 and 9, were at school when police arrived, and that their father was at work.

Schlosser had been investigated on child-neglect allegations this year, but Texas Child Protective Services had recently closed a seven-month investigation, concluding that Schlosser did not pose a risk to her children.

The Schlosser case will certainly add to the media attention on the issue. But DePaul University law professor Michelle Oberman, who has written extensively on mothers who kill their children, said Texas may be bringing some of the attention on itself with the way it prosecutes such cases.

"It gears up the criminal justice system for a death penalty prosecution, rather than approaching the cases as instances of profound mental illness," Oberman said.

[THE BOUNCER]

Read that yesterday and it just makes me sick. What did that little baby do to deserve that? Pieces of shit.

[urso8up]

Originally posted by THE BOUNCER
Read that yesterday and it just makes me sick. What did that little baby do to deserve that? Pieces of shit.

That ia what i was thinking too. I say she should have the same thing done to her so she could feel what is what like.
that is just disturbing

[Megiddo]

Schlosser had been investigated on child-neglect allegations this year, but Texas Child Protective Services had recently closed a seven-month investigation, concluding that Schlosser did not pose a risk to her children.

Well looks like someone fucked the pooch on that one eh?

[grnmchn]

Have they said what she used to sever the arms with? Because depending on that it could make the story that much worse.

[Luftdude]

You know it made the headlines down here and it just sickens me that that mother did that. This world is really going down the gutter fast.

LD

[hitmansb]

This life sentence business is bullshit....they need to start frying those crazy bitches.

[redneck99]

Originally posted by hitmansb
This life sentence business is bullshit....they need to start frying those crazy bitches.

they're in the right state for that...

[Pumpdogg]

I'll help pay for the electric. I hope they fry that bitch and she burns in hell!!!!!!

PD

[Megiddo]

Originally posted by Pumpdogg
I'll help pay for the electric. I hope they fry that bitch and she burns in hell!!!!!!

PD

According to her she did it for God so she is most certainly gonna get to go to heaven.

Not to veer off topic but people like this are the reason I despise religion. This lady was so indoctrinated in whatever faith that she actually beleived that God would want her to do this? Fucking Loon. Just as bad as a fucking strung out crack whore.

[Pumpdogg]

Originally posted by Megiddo
According to her she did it for God so she is most certainly gonna get to go to heaven.

Not to veer off topic but people like this are the reason I despise religion. This lady was so indoctrinated in whatever faith that she actually beleived that God would want her to do this? Fucking Loon. Just as bad as a fucking strung out crack whore.

Yeah that had nothing to do with God, people get wrapped up in doctrine instead of what the good book says if you believe. Not trying to get into a religious conversation either, just wanted to say that she is whack like allot of people and looking for an excuse to make it seem right. She will get hers for sure!!

PD

[SloppyJo]

...disturbing

[string_bean00]

Sick.

[lordikon]

Originally posted by THE BOUNCER
Read that yesterday and it just makes me sick. What did that little baby do to deserve that? Pieces of shit.

Religion should be illegal for stupid people. When idiots get ahold of religion they use it as an excuse to slice off babies arms, run airplanes into skyscrapers, and massacres millions of people in gas chambers.

[dreamgirl]

very very sad

[spidey]

Crazy as the proverbial loon. She was humming church hyms when the found her. I really feel sorry for her when she realizes (with the help of anti-psychotic meds) what she has done.

The really fucked up thing about it all is she probably doesn't think the baby did anything wrong or deserved to die a horrible death. She probably thinks god told her to do it or some shit like that. This seems remarkably similar to that women in Texas last mother's day who bashed in her kids' heads with a rock. She thought god spoke to her and told her to do it and her kids would be in heaven. She did it out of LOVE.

What a fucked up world we live in. I don't know what I would do if those were my kids and their mother did something like that. I would go absolutely insane and probably kill her and myself. I would rather die 1000 times than see my son in that kind of pain for even a second.

[FX4]

Originally posted by spidey
I don't know what I would do if those were my kids and their mother did something like that. I would go absolutely insane and probably kill her and myself. I would rather die 1000 times than see my son in that kind of pain for even a second.

My son is just over 10 months old, and the images of that happening to him are too much to bear...that crazy bitch deserves a slow, painful death...lethal injection would be entirely to easy

[lordikon]

I think torture should be allowed. Eye for an eye.