I can't excuse the murder of this child because she was abused. Sorry not sorry. If we excuse one (and she is a white, female of all the people!), then we have to excuse them all; child predators that were sexually abused, narcissists that were always put on the pedestal and deserve it all, control freaks that can't handle divorce so they kill everyone and themselves in their family. You get the idea. If she couldn't handle raising Colton, by the looks of Facebook and those speaking about this, she had plenty of opportunities to hand Colton off to someone that could better provide for him. She had nearly two years to make that choice. The first step would have been for her to allow herself the time to grow up (mentally, emotionally and financially) before she had a child. But, I won't really go there. Not everyone is afforded that before giving birth -- which is basically why we see so many of these cases here on WS.