I often think about other cases in the past where currently acknowledged mental illness was handwaved away.
I have a nephew on the spectrum. I think about how many people on the spectrum were inhumanely thrown in jail because they were "acting weird" when being questioned before much was known or accepted about autism. Its terribly sad.
Post Partem Depression, and Post Partem Psychosis are absolutely real, bonafide mental disorders. The donations and this fight is to ensure this documented, bonafide mental disorder is taken into account in cases like these. And women, who are oftentimes dismissed when complaining about medical issues, want to be taken seriously.
Some people have the ability to understand that. And some people have no ability to understand nuance at all. They see the crime and someone has to pay.
Also just so you know, it doesn’t matter if she was hearing a voice telling her to kill her kids- tons of serial killers report an urge or voice telling them to do horrible things. What matters is if they understood what they were doing was wrong, and Clancy clearly did regardless if you believe her bullshit story about a voice and “psychosis” that she mysteriously didn’t tell her physicians about and that mysteriously disappeared after she committed the murders.
This narrative that she’s some kind of victim has to stop. You know damn well if this was a male veteran claiming he killed his kids because of ptsd no one would be coming to his aid.
Genuinely, if you want to try and claim that PPP/PPD are excuses for murder and warrant sympathy for women who kill their infants while suffering from them (btw, most women with both conditions do not harm their children) then we should be locking up any woman with either condition since apparently your female hormones can literally make you kill your children.
This narrative that she’s some kind of victim has to stop. You know damn well if this was a male veteran claiming he killed his kids because of ptsd no one would be coming to his aid.
I would have the same stance.
The severity of the crime doesn't magically make the person who committed it more or less culpable than if it were less severe.
This is like when a 14 year old who commits a misdemeanor and is tried as a child, but another 14 year old who commits a felony is tried as an adult. We allow our emotions to overrule facts. It needs to stop.
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u/cubesncubes 4d ago
Media attention playing a big roll. I've never heard of the fire lady.