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thinking about it for the rest of her life probably doesn't mean much considering she is insane. crazy people don't have remorse. did you see her when the verdict was read? no emotion at all. i think the insanity plea is fine for certain cases (when a clinical diagnosis is known prior to the crime), but i feel too many people are perfectly sane, commit a crime, and then plead insanity after the fact. and as i said, there is a certain point where being crazy just ain't gonne cut it. killing your 5 kids is in that territory. so as i said before, fry the [censored].


Many people who are insane feel a great deal of remorse especially once they start to take meds and become less psychotic. Imagine that you were playing a video game and you were killing a lot of bad people, then imagine that when the game was suddenly turned off you found out that the game was not only real, you were actually killing loved ones. While not a similar analogy to this case, this is similar to what Andrea most likely went through, Her level of reality was signifigantly altered by post partum psychosis. Because of enviromental factors beyond her control, she honestly felt that it was right for her to kill her kids so that they could get to heaven.
One case that I've seen used in defence of the plea (sorry I can't remember the name) was a schizophrenic man who saw dogs coming to attack and kill him, he killed the dogs but they turned out to be his family members. That scares teh bejesus out of me, I've seen patients/clients in psychotic states that were not in this world. I can't begin to fathom what it'd be like to do something you thought was right and it turns out to be horrendously wrong. The scary thing is that it can happen to just about any of us, depending on genetics, envronment, and history.
All in all Andrea is going to be locked away for a very long time, and once she is deemed fit to be released from the institution that she's in, she will be tracked very closely, having little to no civil rights (her PO or social worker will determine where she lives, what she can do, where she can go etc.) and will be forced to take mood altering medications (which tend to shorten your lifespan btw) and live with the fact that she killed all of her children. Don't know, I think she'd might actually think death is better, does that make it better for us?


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