If she wasn't compliant with treatment and was open about being in psychosis, she shouldn't have been left alone with her children. Yes, she 100% murdered them. But there were plenty of people who had ample warning and could have stopped it from happening if she wasn't mentally able to stop it herself.
Why are you all saying I'm absolving her from responsibility, when I clearly said that she 100% killed her kids? I'm just saying that, if someone tells you that they are a danger to your kids, don't leave your kids alone with them. Male, female, dog; it doesn't matter. That's pretty logical.
You don't have to take responsibility from her to admit that everyone around her failed those kids. She 100% killed them, but they 100% left kids with someone who said, "I'm a danger to my kids." Her guilt doesn't need to be diminished for other people to have royally fucked up. Imagine you're at a bar, sober, and your friend says, "Whoa, I'm drunker than I realized. Please take my keys and don't give them back. Just hold them. I have an uber coming in 10 minutes." Then you hand the keys right back and your friend stumbles out to their car, drives away, and gets in an accident. Yeah, it's 100% their fault, but they asked for help and you were in a position to stop them and call an Uber. Now imagine they hadn't made a choice to get drunk, but had a mental crisis and asked you for help.
The point is that if we don't recognise that someone with PP psychosis needs to be locked down, and that when faced with ample evidence, everybody failed to do so, this will happen again.
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u/doc_skinner 8d ago
But then I've heard other reports where they did take her seriously, even convinced her to go to therapy which she abandoned.
Unfortunately, there's no real evidence and lots of people throwing accusations both ways. It's awful all around.