04-14-2014, 09:58 PM
(04-14-2014, 08:38 PM)ramseycat Wrote: And what sickness makes a woman kill her babies?
I don't know, but I'm curious too.
There are cases of women who killed their kids because they wanted attention and sympathy -- attributed to Munchausen by Proxy. That doesn't apply here since allegedly nobody was aware the babies existed.
There are also cases of women who killed their children because they thought they weren't good enough mothers so they wanted to send them to a better place -- attributed to severe Postpartum Depression. That doesn't seem to apply either because that typically sets in at 4 weeks or longer after birth.
Then there are just the selfish soulless ones who decided they didn't want their kids any longer so they killed them quickly or via chronic abuse and neglect.
I've read about young women who hid their pregnancies and then killed the newborns because they were scared or didn't know what to do. But, I've never heard of a grown married woman having multiple babies only to kill them immediately, without anybody knowing of the pregnancies or births. A terrible alternative to abortion? Just likes to kill and didn't want to be caught so she created her own secret victims? Voices in her head?
If they were really in the dark, her family must be freaking out.