Maternal Instinct - Netflix

[Droosie123]

Annie Elise on YouTube has done a deep dive on this case. Worth watching as she has been looking into it for a while. Extra info there.

 

[Droosie123]

I think they actually failed her. This could have been nipped in the bud before this happened. She was clearly mentally ill and needed professional help. Now she’ll pay with her life and 2 other people have died as a result of this.

She’s as manipulative as hell from all I have read.
Very hard to help someone like that.

 

[Lukeal70]

I have found the police cam footage of her in the hospital if anyone's interested.
It's nearly 2 hours long, I am about 50 mins in & its fascinating.
The coppa asking her questions is interesting. I thought he was talking too much at first & giving her too much time to think. Interesting to hear what others think & how it plays out.

 

[Droosie123]

It's a shame they didn't show a lot of the trial because I was really interested in her defence.

As a purely armchair psychologist, I would say she demonstrated a lot of the characteristics of something like Borderline Personality Disorder and, as others have said, possibly Munchausens/Munchausen by Proxy.

To be honest though, mental health defences don't generally cut a lot of ice in a country where the justice system appears to be based on religion and revenge. It's far easier just to brand someone "evil" without really trying to understand why.

I think the psych said borderline personality disorder.

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

I watched the tv drama Stolen Baby yesterday. Very similar to this and it’s a true story

 

[Be More Pacific]

I think the psych said borderline personality disorder.

Oh, see, I genuinely didn't know that but I'm really not surprised. And she still got the death penalty? Fucking hell.