Mum who killed baby in 1998 gets suspended sentence

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1. I can understand the mental health side of this during the event and even excuse driving 40 miles to dispose of the body. It is the not coming forward for more than 25 years while supposedly thinking about it every day and feeling incredibly guilty which irks me. She would still be keeping it secret if not for the DNA evidence leading to her arrest.

2. If it was the father, they’d be locked up proper. Regardless of any MH claims

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5. So diminished that she was able to look after her other baby after she hid her pregnancy, hid the birth, shoved tissues down her new baby’s throat and hid the body.

6. Is it in the publics interest to continue on with this, I’d suggest it’s not.

7. Dreadfully sad case. I watched the sentencing on bbc today. The female judge was right and proper but also compassionate to this woman, who lived every day with the guilt of what may have been a still born

8. Wow. Just wow.

9. This doesn’t seem right. 

   If a man were depressed because he was losing sleep from the baby crying, it would be absolutely no justification. Many women go through post natal depression, but not many kill their infant child as a result.  She hid the crime and knew she’d done wrong. She didn’t even come forward, she got found out.

   So many factors here say she knew she did something wrong and hid it. The sentence is less than some drink drivers get. I don’t agree with that.

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