Woman who killed grandchild says she felt unloved

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2011-09-29 01:02

Story here. Excerpt:

'FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A grandmother who threw her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a sixth-floor walkway at Virginia's largest shopping mall told detectives in a taped confession that she felt unloved by her family and jealous of the attention her granddaughter received.

More than anything, Carmela dela Rosa told detectives, she was angry at her son-in-law James Ogdoc for taking her daughter away from her and saw killing the infant as a way to get back at him, according to the confession. The tape was played to jurors Tuesday at the woman's murder trial.

"I just saw James through her, through the baby," dela Rosa said in the hour-long videotaped confession to a Fairfax police detective. "I thought about James and I threw her."

Dela Rosa, 50, of Fairfax, Va., acknowledges that she threw her granddaughter, 2-year-old Angelyn Ogdoc, from an elevated pedestrian bridge at Tysons Corner Center last November, in the midst of the busy holiday shopping season. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and her lawyers argue that her diagnosed depression was so severe that she could not distinguish right from wrong.

In her confession, though, dela Rosa explicitly states that what she did was wrong. "I did a terrible thing," she told the detectives. She also admits that her intent at the time was to kill Angelyn and that she hatched the plan several minutes before carrying it out.'

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This grandmother blamed her son-in-law for getting her daughter pregnant, like her daughter had nothing to do with it. The grandmother blamed her own husband for loving the grand-daughter more than he loved her, and so she attempted suicide twice. Of course it's the husband's fault that he loves the grand-daughter more than his wife, his wife's crazy behavior has nothing to do with it.

Throughout this article we see a 50 year old woman blaming men for her own personal unhappiness. There's a lot of that blaming going around these days. So it's not surprising that this blame is showing up as a motivation for violent crimes such as this. Catherine Kieu Becker blamed her husband for wanting a divorce, and so she drugged him and cut off his penis.

What these women need to do is get responsible for their own lives, and stop blaming men.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Thu, 2011-09-29 04:51

to have a trial? whenever the man blaming, excuses and general women worship ends,
and even if found guilty, the old black robe will reach under his bench and
bring out the pink book of judgement. he will look up the 'proper' justice
she deserves (you know, for being so special), and with a wink and a nod send her
off for some serious probation/suspended sentence/time served/etc.

the trick is to understand the game being played, and then look for when the
extra cards come out.

gambler

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Submitted by daveinga on Sat, 2011-10-01 15:36

There are always people, no matter how old they become, who cannot seem to take responsibility not just for their actions but for their reactions-- their behavior overall. There are men who are the same way. The difference between men and women in this context is the standards of acceptability for this behavior. It's unacceptable for men to blame their wives for their actions, or women in general, while it is acceptable for women to blame their husbands for their own actions. This extends to male relatives generally. The excuses (severe depression, other mental illness, etc.) get made for women but not for men. All part of nymphotropism. What needs changing is that no one should be able to make excuses for doing things like dropping babies from balconies. In the kind of society we live in, women can and do get away with committing these kinds of crimes, while if men do it, they do not. That is how badly polluted by nymphotropism we are.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2011-10-01 16:11