IF ANYONE should have received the ultimate penalty for killing her children, it was Susan Smith, the woman who drowned her young sons in a vain attempt to winꦗ♔ the love of a rich man.
But a South Carolina jury chose instead to send Smith to prison, where she has been part of a sex scanda🌸l for carrying on with guards. She will be eligible for parole just before she reaches menopause.
The jury chose to spare Smith’s life for one reason:
Blinded by their pity for the young mother, jurors assumed she couldn’t be completely responsible for driving her car to a lake and sending her boys, aged 3 and 1, to a watery grave.
Pity, too, will save the life of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who methodically and diabolically drowned her five young children in the family bathtub. But it shouldn’t.
Various pundits and “experts” like Marie Osmond have already taken it upon their ignorant selves to pronounce Yates virtually innocent. And when it comes to trial, if this case ever does, not even a Texas jury would dare put the death needle into Yates’ arm.
After all, everyone says, she was depressed.
Yates had attempted suicide after the birth of her fourth child, then proceeded to bear 🌱a fifth. She was ꧟on anti-depressant medication. Case closed.
These facts are being used to excuse her, by people who haven’t a clue about what went through Yates’ mind. Strangers have declared her psychotic, out of touch with reality.
Never do the so-called experts consider the reality suffered by the poor Yates children, ཧwho were laid out in their coffins yesterday, dressed as if for play. They were forced to stare their mother in the face as, one by one, she dunked their heads into the tub, and held their struggling bodies until they stopped breathing.
While doing research for a book on Susan Smith, I lea♔rned of another possible reason why mothers kill the vulnerable bei♛ngs to whom they gave life:
They do not love them.
A psychiatrist, Dr. Leon Lefer, said it was a “myth” that all mothers care for their kids.
This fact is known by ♛the FBI, whose job is to track down children who disappear. Often, they are found dead, killed by a parent. The bureau has heard every excuse under the sun.
In the case of Smith, she had been having an affair with her stepfather. One has to wonder why Yates’ husband, knowing his wife’s mental state, allowed her to home-school the children.
Such things may explain depression. They cannot, and should 🎐not, be used to excuse a hideous crime.
Still, blaming a mother for murder is heresy among the talking heads who fill the airwaves with psycho-babble about post-partum depressio🌞n.
The very notion of a mother taking r🙈esponsibility is threatening to people like Osmond. Why?
Because if one mother can hate herཧ children, that meaꦬns there must be more like her.