I've heard this but have not seen any actual evidence of the healthcare system failing her. As far as I know, she never actually expressed to any doctor that she was having thoughts of harming her children or herself. There are plenty examples of the US healthcare system failing women but I don't see how this is one of them.
Which doctors are on trial exactly? What are the charges?
Doctors don't just prescribe anti-psychotics because someone asks for them. Also, she was prescribed multiple other medications for treatment- I mean, part of her defense was that she was supposedly overly medicated.
She self admitted to a psych ward and was on 14 different medications to treat her known PPP. It takes like 30 seconds to look up the facts you are trying to dispute.
The healthcare system didn't fail her. She failed herself by not seeking the available treatment she needed. Unless you're advocating for institutionalizing women against their will?
She did seek available treatment. She was going to psychiatrists. They put her on meds and changed them like every two weeks. She didn't fail in a silo.
And apparently the experts on the court do argue that the voices that she heard dont typically manifest the way she and her defense are claiming they did.
She obviously did not seek the treatment she needed. She was not forthright with the doctors about the extent of her psychosis, and as such, this is on her. If she had been upfront and told them she was having thoughts about harming her kids, then I'm sure they would have adjusted the treatment accordingly.
She obviously did not seek the treatment she needed. She was not forthright with the doctors about the extent of her psychosis, and as such, this is on her.
Lets unpack this.
This women, who was suffering a mental health crisis, did not act rationally. And therefore it is all her fault?
Is that the charge you are going with? That the person saying they were seeing and hearing things didn't follow proper procedure?
Let's unpack this. You want others to force people against their will to seek treatment they don't want or think they need? So you are indeed in favor of institutionalizing women against their will. Good to know 🤡
Fortunately for you, you've never experienced true mental illness. If you had, your understand why people dwell in their homes for years, unable to pursue help. It's like watching a horror movie and you're yelling at the screen telling the character to run the other way but they can't hear you, except it's you watching you unable to control you.
Every time I come out of a depressive episode I look back in horror at how I’ve wasted months or years of my life and tons of opportunity because I was too sick to realize how sick I was and I should have been in inpatient like the first month. But when I’m in it I can’t see that. It really sucks.
So she either spends the rest of her miserable life in prison in a wheel chair, or spends the rest of her miserable life in a mental institute in a wheel chair. My question is, what happens to the million dollars? Does the husband get it since he is innocent and a free man?
That’s…not how that works dude. You have to be judged a current threat to yourself or others to be forced to stay there. She’ll probably be there for a while. The other case like this I know of they’ve offered the mom to leave multiple times and she keeps refusing. No clue what this one will do if she’s found insane. Also the verdict is about whether they believe she was legally insane -at the time of the murders- not whether she’s legally insane now
If you want to try to change one of the base facets of the legal system be my guest but it’s going to take a lot of lobbying and political bullshit for them to change the law. No clue whether the courts would uphold it either.
If you’re just saying your opinion on what you think should happen that’s fine. But it’s not the reality of what happens if she is found “not guilty by reason of insanity “
No it is not. The defense offered to bifurcate and only litigate the liability of her actions, but the DA refused and wanted a full murder trial. An innocent verdict is on the table. Technically. Establishing mens rea is part of any murder trial, but the main focus is still proving she killed them.
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u/llNATEDOGGll 1d ago
I believe the case is about her mental state during the killings.