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Australia: Woman who drowned baby could be free is less than two months

Minuteman - Wed, 2012-08-15 11:28

Link here. Excerpt:

'A woman depressed and suffering "abnormality of mind" when she left her baby daughter in a bath to drown could be free in less than two months.

The 27-year-old, who can't be named, was sentenced in the Supreme Court in Sydney on Wednesday to a maximum five years in prison with a non-parole period of three years and two months.

She has been in custody since her arrest on August 10, 2009 and could possibly get out of jail on October 9.

In sentencing the woman, Acting Justice Michael Grove said a series of events led to her placing the 17-month-old into a bath and turning on the taps at her Gwynneville unit near Wollongong on July 21, 2009.

While he found she foresaw the probability of her daughter's death, she was suffering from such an "abnormality of the mind" that her capacity to control herself or understand whether her actions were right or wrong was "substantially impaired".'

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Blame it on the man.

Kratch - Thu, 2012-08-16 10:50

Here we have another case of blame it on the man:

"Arguments frequently erupted, with the father "raining insults on her" and partaking in "calculating misbehaviour and mistreatment"..."

"Depressed and vulnerable, she came to believe the man's insults and claims he would take her daughter away from her."

"He (judge) said the woman putting the child in the bath was an act entirely at odds with her conduct as a "loving, caring and diligent mother"."

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