HopeInOhio
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Here's one from 2008 where a woman stabbed her 15 year old son during a supervised visit at a psychiatrist's office:
"Police said when a nurse who was present at the meeting last weekend turned her head, Minardi took a 15-inch decorative dagger and a drywall knife out of her purse and began slashing her teen son."
http://crime.about.com/b/2008/03/31/mom-stabs-son-during-supervised-visit.htm
And here's the one I think you were talking about Gwenabob. It's from 2001:
"Police said Sharon Yvonne Weston made several failed attempts in a park on Wednesday during a supervised visit with Alexis Mariah Lopez, who had been put in foster care.
She finally succeeded, and then wheeled the body in a stroller to a nearby funeral home and told shocked mourners leaving a service that she had just killed her daughter."
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/31334_toddler14.shtml
Nothing is 100% safe but I really do think cases like these are very, very rare when considering the amount of supervised visits that take place every day in the U.S. I venture to guess that TH would be closely watched in such a situation. I doubt a monitor would drop the ball in such a high profile case. I'm sure she would have visits in an enclosed, secure facility.
I'm trying to gauge what would be best for the baby here, not TH. Does she indeed miss her mommy? Would she benefit from limited contact? Did she see something horrific such that visits may be traumatic? I don't know. I doubt it but I just don't know. I guess that's why there are hearings and why people who wants rights to their children participate, testify, subject themselves to the discovery process, child custody evaluations, depositions, etc., none of which TH is willing to participate in.
Nevertheless, the possibility of supervised visits does seem harmless for the most part and could be beneficial to Baby K. I'm interested to see what the judge will do.
BBM. I would imagine that it would do a 2-year-old more harm than good to see her mom for an hour or two at a time and then be taken away from her again. That is very disruptive, IMO, and confusing for a toddler to understand and I can't imagine a judge would put her through that. Better to keep her in her presumably stable environment and if/when Terri is deemed fit to see her on an on-going, regular basis, then they can re-introduce her to her mommy. It's sad, but I do think it is in the best interest of K.