This is my very first post. I've read so much about this case and just need to make my one comment. When my daughter was 8 yr old I wanted to kill her. Thought about it all the time. Knew I was crazy so went to a psychiatrist. She told me I wasn't crazy, all moms want to kill their kids sometimes. I figured she was crazy, so I went to a therapist. That's where I learned after months of therapy I had repressed childhood memories of sexual abuse which were later validated by other children abused by my father. So the point is, I can't know WHY these women did the things they did, but I do know that childhood abuse in many cases causes those who grow up to abuse children. We try not to, we think we're being better parents, but when abuse goes untreated, we unconsciously or consciously replay the whole scenario. I starved my child, I took her to doctors for nonexistent conditions, and then I wanted to kill her. Thank god and 11 therapists later, my daughter is grown, healthy, loving-- and I'm no longer crazy. So if you want to know why any mother does something crazy, it's because crazy was done to her. BUT there is no excuse when you are the child of crazy. There is no explanation big enough, no forgiveness worthy. This case breaks my heart all over again. That no one saw how wrong it all was.
