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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lindsay had been on leave since May and had 2 children prior to this newest one. She wasn’t lacking in leave or knowledge of how to get babies to sleep. [/quote]

She checked herself into a psych hospital three months ago and has been on 12 different psych meds since.  Her husband called her psych doctors the week before begging to help her as she was “like a zombie.”  They were trying to get help.  She was clearly losing her sanity.  She might never get it back and probably doesn’t want to, I wouldn’t.  He should have left his job entirely until she was out of crisis but we all know work is priority #1 in the US and taking leave is frowned upon.  Now they have lost everything.  No, there’s not enough support for parents, not enough childcare options, not enough mental healthcare or maternity and postpartum medical and psychological support.  Maybe none of that could have stopped this tragedy.  But we could certainly prevent others.  The truth is we say ‘you chose to have a kid it’s all on you to deal with it, not my problem.’  Even in states where women don’t have that choice.   Jobs punish you or fire you for having to take time to care for young kids.  Paid leave is rare, short, and discouraged.  No one in our society wants to pay any extra to support new parents.  [/quote]

Yet he left this" zombie" with the kids for 30 minutes. Didn't order in and didn't take the kids with him. Something isn't adding up here. It will all come out in trial[/quote]

She was the primary caregiver (took the kids to the dr’s, made a snowman with them) so that to me tells me that she was not under direction to be chaperoned with the kids. She was OK to be alone with them. PC also made it clear that he was never told to not leave them alone w/ her. [/quote]

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