Reply #144: I keep thinking of the little boys [View All]

[Evergreen Emerald]

Who loved her more than anything in the whole-wide-world. And who trusted her with their very lives. And I wonder what they thought when she manically chased them down and fought with them and pushed them into the bathtub, next to their dead brother. And I wonder the betrayal they felt as she--the one who was supposed to love them no matter what--held them under water as they attempted to gasp for air until they died.

Sorry, I cannot muster sympathy for her. She belongs somewhere where she cannot hurt anyone ever again. She can get help in prison.

Neither do I have sympathy for an adult sex offender who raped a little girl and claimed that he was mentally ill due to the fact that he was raped as a child routinely by his father. Was he acting out his victimization uncontrollably? I don't care. What ever his problem is, he does not deserve to be free to do it again.

Should they be compared? Some her say not. I disagree.

The lie told at trial according to the article: Dietz incorrectly testified that an episode of "Law and Order" in which a woman with postpartum depression drowned her children and was found insane aired shortly before Yates drowned her five children. Such an episode never existed.

That was not a lie regarding whether or not she was legally sane. That was a jury nullification lie. I agree that it should not have been said, and I trust the appeal's court's decision. But, the outcome should be the same. Those little boys and her future little boys deserve no less.