[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

http://www4.fosters.com/november_200...s/ro_1113a.asp

[Oisín]

This might be a strange question (the article certainly doesn't imply that anyone has asked it at all), but why did this woman suddenly just up and decide to sacrify her child(ren) to God???

[voyageur]

Because she was mentally deranged?

Seriously, it probably doesn't matter much what her reasons were. What matters now is that her children are not returned to her care, but placed somewhere safe so we don't have another Andrea Yates.

[Xeo]

Have to the the courts decide on this one. There certainly wasn't enough information there for us to know for sure what was going on. There is no indication that the guy was doing anything to help with the sacrifice and could very well have been there to keep harm from happening.

[Oisín]

Originally posted by voyageur:
Because she was mentally deranged?

Seriously, it probably doesn't matter much what her reasons were. What matters now is that her children are not returned to her care, but placed somewhere safe so we don't have another Andrea Yates.

Well, obviously she was mentally deranged. Sane people don't go out and sacrifice their children. What I was wondering, and something I find does matter, is what was it made her do it. Even mentally deranged people don't just go out and sacrifice their children for no reason.

Of course, as Xeo said, there wasn't enough of anything in that article to give us any idea of what happened.

[MilkmanDan]

Stranger things have happened in recent history. Remember the Florida couple who refused medical treatment for their son, because they said only prayer could cure him (though a serries of shots would have done it). This was only a couple of years ago. They both got manslaughter for it.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Oisín:
This might be a strange question (the article certainly doesn't imply that anyone has asked it at all), but why did this woman suddenly just up and decide to sacrify her child(ren) to God???

Brainwashing? The promise of a blissful afterlife has her so blinded to what she was doing perhaps?

[ManOfSteal]

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[TheBadgerHunter]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Brainwashing? The promise of a blissful afterlife has her so blinded to what she was doing perhaps?

Come on. "Thou shalt not kill". You don't get benefits for sacrificing your children.

I hate to agree with Zimphire, I'm not even a christian, but you're really just being pathetic now.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
Come on. "Thou shalt not kill". You don't get benefits for sacrificing your children.

I hate to agree with Zimphire, I'm not even a christian, but you're really just being pathetic now.

Riiiight. And how many Christians follow the whole "Thou shall not have sex before marriage and lie" thing.

In her eyes she was not murdering anyone, she was "sacrificing them to her God".

[TheBadgerHunter]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Riiiight. And how many Christians follow the whole "Thou shall not have sex before marriage and lie" thing.

In her eyes she was not murdering anyone, she was "sacrificing them to her God".

In secular christianity? A fair but probably not large number. Of course considering people who don't follow the bible christians leads to some confusion.

Where would she get that idea? There is one instance in the old testament of that. Absolutely none in the new and a boat-load saying otherwise. Why do you assume she was the religious one?

We don't have the whole story. It would seem the guy was just trying to get her counseling and that she was "irrational". I'd take a stab and say it was the youngest that wanted to sacrifice. She probably was just feeling like it was too much and blurted that out. On top of that you've got a charge of possession of marijuana.

[fireside]

i never really got why lawyers always say "my client had no previous criminal record" to mean something. is that supposed to effect the judge or jury or something? like, if you have no criminal record and you commit a crime you get off easier?

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by fireside:
i never really got why lawyers always say "my client had no previous criminal record" to mean something. is that supposed to effect the judge or jury or something? like, if you have no criminal record and you commit a crime you get off easier?

Yup, they normally do, plus get lower bail.

[Eriamjh]

"My client has never killed anyone before..."

Like that is really a good defense.