12 years

[B00]

Is there only me who feels terribly sorry for this woman?

http://www.dailymail....-jailed-12-years.html

[flip_flop]

Nothing new to add - just reinforcing some comments already on here.

The fact that she has been sentenced to spend time in jail and not in a lunatic asylum confirms she knew exactly what she was doing.

The fact she killed her daughter out of spite to hurt somebody else makes the crime even worse in my eyes.

I'm glad the depression argument hasn't worked.

Can anybody imagine, just for a moment, being in the little girl's shoes? Children trust their parents implicitly with a pure and devoted love......and then mummmy plunges a knife in to her small body and she lay there for a number of hours, no doubt in great pain, before finally succumbing to death.

This woman is an absolute monster who, having failed in taking her own life, should be locked up for the rest of her life.

Anybody who feels any sympathy for this piece of detritus has warped values.

[NoMercy]

Not a grain of sympathy. She was the architect of her own misery, not an innocent bystander in her own life.

[cathfromsaron]

i agree it's an awful case, and she should probably be having more hospital based care, but the sentence is correct.

[ummmm]

Why should she have hospital based care?

She would have been assessed and considered of sound mind.

[albaqwerty]

She'll probably be in the hospital area of the prison due to her health problems.
And kept away from those who don't like child-killers.

[cazzz1975]

no sympathy whatsoever

[naomi24]

I can't get my head around this at all. All I can think at the moment is how very, very sad.

[Prudie]

Just because I can feel sympathy for a woman,who for whatever reason, has seen her life become a nightmare, even if it's her own fault, doesn't mean I have warped values.

[B00]

I didn't for one minute think you had Prudie :-)

People probably think I might seeing as I made the post in the first place, but I can live with that one, lol.

[chelle7272]

I'm not sure what all the comments about her doing it out of spite are about. The articel says she sent angry texts to her ex boyfriend Campbell, the childs father is named as Michael Burke?

It is very tragic, and despite experiance of depression (mine and others) I struggle to have any sympathy because of the child.

[Mick-Talbot]

I would assume ex boyfriend Campbell was bringing the child up as his own.

[craft1948]

If I was that angry I'd have killed the boyfriend, but never my child......

[NOX]

The fact that she killed her own child is a terrible thing but the fact that she also tried to kill herself implies that the motivation behind that awful crime was in fact to protect the child because she would not be around to look after her and was terrified of what would happen to her. Whilst in no way does that excuse her appalling actions, it does flag up that the woman was clearly under extreme duress at the time and as such I feel that the sentence was unduly harsh.

[Mick-Talbot]

Why not take the girl to her dads or nans and then go commit suicide, NOX?

[LoftyLottie]

I absolutely agree with NOX. When someone is mentally disturbed they do not think rationally. She might be a very sane person under normal circumstances. Much as what she did is absolutely awful, and we can't understand how any mother can kill their child, we cannot know what was going on in her mind.

I am not sure I feel sorry for her exactly, but can understand how BOO feels.

[NOX]

Clearly because she was completely out of whack which is the whole point of what I was saying. I have no sympathy for her crime but I do have sympathy for anyone who finds themselves so devoid of normal thinking having previously been a good parent. Coupled with the fact that she will live with the consequences of her deed for the rest of her life and is profoundly disabled due to her botched suicide then I stand by my opinion that the sentence was unusually harsh.

[chelle7272]

//I would assume ex boyfriend Campbell was bringing the child up as his own. //

Not sure how you can be so judgemental on an assumption then? She split up with the childs father only 3 years before this happened, so we don't know how long or how involved the ex Campbell was with the child.

! agree with Lottie's comments.

[chaptazbru]

No, I don't have a lot of sympathy for her, especially after reading how her little child died. She got caught out in a scam with her boyfriend and was ashamed, is that any reason to murder your child?? I must admit though she cut a pitiful figure partly paralysed in that wheelchair and to some extent I can see where BOO is coming from, but my main sympathies are for the dead little girl.

[Duncer]

Let's see - she leaks confidential information to her boyfriend for financial gain, gets caught and feels sorry for herself, does something utterly vile, causing the poor child to have cuts on her hands from trying to defend herself, and I am expected to be sympathetic in some way?

[flip_flop]

I didn't know that the poor child had defensive wounds Duncer - I couldn't read the whole article.

That makes the child's experience even worse.

I'm amazed, baffled even, how anybody can show any sympathy for this sane monster. Weird.