melissa… not megan!?!?

Me too! I don’t know how she was able to walk, let alone make it through that alone. Yes, she absolutely should have. As for kids today, I don’t think so, but I can’t say for sure. Thanks!

It is very sad. I agree about the psych eval on the first, and I also think the county should have been on that woman much earlier. If she and her kids were living in squalor, something should have been done.

And I KNOW. I read that and just got sick. IMO, Melissa is the type who would commit another crime. Maybe not, but she’s far more likely, and I don’t see how the sentence matches what she did.

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That’s an interesting point. Many women aren’t interested or geared for having children, and that’s perfectly acceptable – although not always recognized. However, it’s hard for me to be sympathetic to someone like Melissa Drexler when birth control is so easily available. I feel the same way about Kathryn, to an extent. Agreed on common sense – we need some of that every where.

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Yes.

Is Kathryn Burton serving too much?

Yes.

Should there be a universal law regarding infanticide?

No. Existing laws apply in both cases. I do think that the justice system is already overly harsh when it comes to mothers. There may well be mental health issues (I’m thinking of Andrea Yates) at play. For some reason society expects every woman who gives birth to automatically be a loving mother. While those are lovely sentiments, it isn’t reality. We need some common sense in our justice system. Melissa Drexler

Yes, I chose not to profile Andrea because there are so many extenuating circumstances with her. While I can’t fathom what she did, as you said, she and her husband had been warned (more than once, if I remember correctly) about the post partum effect. I’ve heard the same, that she’s on meds – something her husband should have sought for her. That whole story is a tragedy all around.

And I agree on the sociopaths/psychopaths – there are many more around us. I think missing empathy and a conscience is a big part of the problem. It’s frightening.

Absolutely. IMO, it seems Kathryn at least had more of mental illness than Megan, who definitely needed after therapy. And I’d be willing to be she didn’t get it.

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I believe there is MUCH more mental illness going on than most people realize. There are the homeless people walking around on the street talking to the sky, and there are the psychopaths like Ted Bundy and apparently, this Drexler girl, who seem normal on the surface, but are clearly missing a piece of ?empathy? ?soul? Then there are the paranoids like George Zimmerman and Timothy McVeigh, and the schizos like Jared Loughner.

That said, it is MUCH more likely for someone with mental illness to be the victim, rather than the perpetrator of a crime. But when somebody is mentally ill, putting them in prison doesn’t “teach” them anything.

You’re right – charge is the better word. It seems there should be a mandatory, minimum charge and sentence nationwide.

I can’t imagine delivering a baby in a bathroom. I know young girls are scared and what not, but still, there’s no excuse. And I have little sympathy when it’s so easy to get birth control.

Really? I feel just the opposite. I think they were both malicious, but there was something so cold about the second girl … just set wrong with me.

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