Women in jail report that no one believes them when they say they wanted to kill their children. Of the 49 women on death row, 11 killed children. Prior to the homicide, people notice that the mother is having problems parenting.
Nancy-Scheper-Hughes, a medical anthropologist, cited that women sometimes kill their sickly or weak children in situations of extreme poverty. These women do this in response to impossibly difficult situations. Children are sometimes seriously neglected, “sacrificed”, so that older children can live . Why Mothers Kill Their Children. 25 Mar 2002. http://www.aaanet.org/pres/motherskillingchildren.htm.
Women also tend to kill unwanted children. Gender-selection is practiced through the world.
Susan Smith murdered her 2 sons, aged 3 and 14 months, on October 25, 1994 by drowning them. She will be up for parole on November 4, 2024 after serving a minimum sentence of 30 years.
She reported to police that she had been carjacked by a black man who drove away with her sons in the car. Susan gave tearful interviews on TV. Nine days later she confessed to letting her car roll into a lake drowning the children inside.
The motive for the murders were that she wanted to get rid of her children so that she could have a relationship with a wealthy local man who didn’t want children.
While she has been in prison, 2 guards have been punished for having sex with her. It is thought that she may have Borderline Personality Disorder (Susan Smith).
It is sad to think that women are crying out for help, but no one believes them when they say they are struggling. Instead of glamorizing the murders, we should be promoting where women can go to find help.
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