Kensington mom who killed son agonized over school costs

[Anonymous]

http://news.yahoo.com/md-mom-killed-son-agonized-over-school-costs-170100532.html?bouchon=511,dc

[Anonymous]

"[Jensvold] did mention in the note that she knows people whose parents committed suicide when they were children and how difficult and traumatizing that was, and she didn't want to do that to Ben," Slaughter said.

"It is very true," she added. "I can't imagine Ben ever recovering from the loss of his mother."

I can't imagine him recovering from being DEAD. It's sad that she felt so alone, but she's still an evil child murderer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

"[Jensvold] did mention in the note that she knows people whose parents committed suicide when they were children and how difficult and traumatizing that was, and she didn't want to do that to Ben," Slaughter said.

"It is very true," she added. "I can't imagine Ben ever recovering from the loss of his mother."

I can't imagine him recovering from being DEAD. It's sad that she felt so alone, but she's still an evil child murderer.

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She was a woman who had become overwhelmed with life. You are a heartlessitch. Go find the Wizard of Oz and maybe he will give you a heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

"[Jensvold] did mention in the note that she knows people whose parents committed suicide when they were children and how difficult and traumatizing that was, and she didn't want to do that to Ben," Slaughter said.

"It is very true," she added. "I can't imagine Ben ever recovering from the loss of his mother."

I can't imagine him recovering from being DEAD. It's sad that she felt so alone, but she's still an evil child murderer.

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She was a woman who had become overwhelmed with life. You are a heartlessitch. Go find the Wizard of Oz and maybe he will give you a heart.

Oops! You are a heartless bitch, not itch.

[Anonymous]

The title of this post, and of the article, is misleading. Jensvold may have worried about school costs, but she evidently had the means to pay even after MCPS declined to do so. The article indicates that the boy's grandmother, with whom the mother communicated with only sporadically, had agreed to pay for the boy's education.

I don't know what was wrong with her son, if anything, but as an MCPS parent I don't think it is remotely appropriate for the county to spend $50/60k in taxpayer money to send a teenage boy to a weight-loss school. Or to send a boy to a school specializing in autism if he's not actually autistic. And I still can't get over that if the mother really was concerned for her son being bullied over his weight, why on earth would she put him on a reality show about overweight kids???? This was a tragedy, but all signs point to a seriously deranged mother.

[Anonymous]

The mind boggles that people expect a suicidal person to be rational.

[Anonymous]

Anybody know where in Kensington this family lived?

[Anonymous]

Makes you wonder what she would have done when she saw the cost of college...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

"[Jensvold] did mention in the note that she knows people whose parents committed suicide when they were children and how difficult and traumatizing that was, and she didn't want to do that to Ben," Slaughter said.

"It is very true," she added. "I can't imagine Ben ever recovering from the loss of his mother."

I can't imagine him recovering from being DEAD. It's sad that she felt so alone, but she's still an evil child murderer.

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She was a woman who had become overwhelmed with life. You are a heartlessitch. Go find the Wizard of Oz and maybe he will give you a heart.

I'm sorry, she was stressed by bills so she killed herself and child....and we're supposed to feel sorry for her? How about the father of the child (if there was one). Any sibblings? How about the grandparents...

I don't feel sorry for her at all....agree with the pp above. She KILLED HER CHILD because she didn't want her child to miss her. Fuck that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The title of this post, and of the article, is misleading. Jensvold may have worried about school costs, but she evidently had the means to pay even after MCPS declined to do so. The article indicates that the boy's grandmother, with whom the mother communicated with only sporadically, had agreed to pay for the boy's education.

I think this really needs to be highlighted. The 'school costs' is just an excuse. That was most definitely not her real issue. Did you read the entire article? Her mom had offered to pay, and a $10K check arrived soon after she murdered her son. So, that shows that the grandmother really did intend to help out financially.

I hate that the media has made her into such a 'victim' or circumstances. There are many people in worse off states than her who do not make a decision to murder their child. She was heartless. She might have been crazy, but that does not make her anything less than a killer.

[Anonymous]

From the article, she was obviously showing signs of not being altogether with it long before this happened. And on top of it she was a psychiatrist. I remember reading an article published in the mid 80s ( in The Atlantic, I believe) that made the case that mentally ill people are disproportionately attracted to that profession, so that would fit the bill.

[Anonymous]

Also, does anybody find it strange that she killed her kid because she thought the kid would be better off dead than without HER? That's so creepily narcissistic. She was cray-cray fo sho.

[Anonymous]

MCPS did not pay for the weight loss school. The version of the story on yahoo cut a lot from the original, which said, "Jensvold appeared consumed by his education at her father's memorial service last spring, Slaughter said. She confided that she was having trouble paying the roughly $50,000 tuition for Ben to attend Wellspring."

And if you want to know where in Kensington they lived, just check something like whitepages.com. There aren't a lot of Jensvolds in Kensington.

[Anonymous]

She was a single mother of a special needs child. Her burden was not going to end, was it? I'm always stunned by the lack of compassion for people who lose their minds. Walk a mile in her shoes, and let us know if you could handle it. I'm not sure I could. As for the mother's check, that didn't cover all of it, did it? (Oh and to the Montgomery County PP who is questioning whether the boy had autism or not, goodness, that's harsh!)

[Anonymous]

I think she agonzied over the fact that her son was not going to be intelligent enough to lead a regular life and the desparate search for the "right" school was the hope that she could at least get him educated. It also mentioned she felt as if she was looked down on by the school and she probably did feel bad that she was so highly educated and smart but her son was not and was not going to be.

She couldn't kill herself. She couldn't kill him. She couldn't send him to live with his dad because then she would look like a bad mother. She rationalized that what she did was the best choice.