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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These posts speculating about whether she abused her kids beforehand seem to be in poor taste. Nothing has come out yet. She suffered from mental illness and was on a cocktail of very potent medications, as well as treatment 5 days a week. She knew there was a problem. Many postpartum type issues manifest themselves as intrusive thoughts, as do many side effects of the medications she was on.

Nothing gives anyone a free pass for murder or abuse of children. But it also seems distasteful to speculate what someone with mental illness might have done before they were ill and presumably a typical parent.[/quote]

The discussion of whether she abused her children in the past is pertinent to the discussion of her mental health. If this act was truly out of character with no precipitating history of abuse, it makes it seem more plausible that she had some sort of sudden mental break.

The Naperville nurse case posted above involved a woman who found out her husband had an affair. So there was an external factor at play that provided some sort of motive.

I think LC’s case is so confusing because there’s no real motive or pattern of behavior to explain it.[/quote]

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