Saddest thing ever... how could a mother do this?

crysbena

A Texas woman decapitated her newborn baby and ate pieces of his body before turning a knife on herself, police said Monday.

The woman was covered in blood and screaming: "I killed my baby, I want to die" when police arrived at the modest San Antonio home.

"She mentioned that someone or something told her to do it and she was hearing voices, so that leads us to believe she was experiencing some kind of mental crisis," said police spokesman Joe Rios.

The woman had separated from the baby's father about a week earlier and was living with her mother and sister, who were helping to care for the baby born on June 30.

The woman was discovered around 4:30 am Sunday by her mother, who found her holding the decapitated baby.

She appeared to have ingested parts of her child after attacking him with a knife, Rios said.

"She was biting on the head," Rios told AFP.

Otty Sanchez, 33, was charged with capital murder and remained in hospital Monday.

ibis

OMFG.

This has to be some kind of extreme postpartum psychosis... 

MelissaAB5579

I saw this the other day. It makes me sick that these people are allowed to have children.

Lucky428

OMG....  This has to be a case of post partum psychosis right?  It just has to...

Mrs. Diss

That's so scary and really sad.

lovesinthehouse

Well, I think that's going to turn my slight nausea into full-blown morning sickness... Gross.

mistral

Omg, that is one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard.  Completely horrifying.

crysbena

I have friends in that city and they all left items at his memorial...it's so sad.

luckyangel

That's just sick. 

BetchySprout

MelissaAB5579:

I saw this the other day. It makes me sick that these people are allowed to have children.

 

Really, this isn't something one can see coming while pregnant most of the time. It could happen to anyone. I was reading an article about a fine upstanding woman in Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine who took her 7 week old baby out back and shot him and herself. She was perfectly normal, nothing seemed wrong. Nobody at all should be allowed if we are going to keep "these people" from having children. 

 

The only way to fix this is to make PPD/PPP less of a "failure" and more of a "this person needs help". Less of a "it's just the baby blues/she will snap out of it/how can she be depressed, she has a new baby" and more of a "does everything seem OK with this woman?". 

Lisa10e

That is so sad, wow, just wow.

MelissaAB5579

Pattypoundcake:

MelissaAB5579:

I saw this the other day. It makes me sick that these people are allowed to have children.

 

Really, this isn't something one can see coming while pregnant most of the time. It could happen to anyone. I was reading an article about a fine upstanding woman in Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine who took her 7 week old baby out back and shot him and herself. She was perfectly normal, nothing seemed wrong. Nobody at all should be allowed if we are going to keep "these people" from having children. 

 

The only way to fix this is to make PPD/PPP less of a "failure" and more of a "this person needs help". Less of a "it's just the baby blues/she will snap out of it/how can she be depressed, she has a new baby" and more of a "does everything seem OK with this woman?". 

I agree with you on making PPD/PPP.

If I recall correctly there was an article on another site that she had many issues in the past also with her other children. Please forgive me if I am mistaken, 

BetchySprout

MelissaAB5579:

Pattypoundcake:

MelissaAB5579:

I saw this the other day. It makes me sick that these people are allowed to have children.

 

Really, this isn't something one can see coming while pregnant most of the time. It could happen to anyone. I was reading an article about a fine upstanding woman in Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine who took her 7 week old baby out back and shot him and herself. She was perfectly normal, nothing seemed wrong. Nobody at all should be allowed if we are going to keep "these people" from having children. 

 

The only way to fix this is to make PPD/PPP less of a "failure" and more of a "this person needs help". Less of a "it's just the baby blues/she will snap out of it/how can she be depressed, she has a new baby" and more of a "does everything seem OK with this woman?". 

I agree with you on making PPD/PPP.

If I recall correctly there was an article on another site that she had many issues in the past also with her other children. Please forgive me if I am mistaken, 

 

I had not heard anything about that...please forgive my snippiness. PPD/PPP is so misunderstood (and such a silent thing until something like this happens) I can't help but "jump". I just knew she had one other child but never heard anything about problems with that one.