Mother who suffocated newborn gets 18 months� house arrest

What a crock. The woman should have had help before this happened, but since it did, she should be spending time in the slammer.

Methinks the Judge got taken in with a pile of psychobabble.

Another slap in the face to all of us law abiding citizens that can take care of their own families without killing them due to emotional stress.

What!!!!! This is an outrage!!!

Only in Canada such an injustice can happen. F@ck

Their defence was giving birth is a traumatic event and can make you go koo-koo.

I'm not built to give birth, so I don't now how koo-koo women can get after giving birth. Obviously she'd have to gone psychotic for it to be an acceptable defence IMO, which I've never heard of before.

Until now.

My faith in humanity wanes more and more everyday. the justice system is no better than the criminals...they re-victimize with every lame ass sentence they hand out Pathetic scum

I understand that some women suffer from extreme post-partum depression. I also accept that it's next to impossible to understand these women's feelings without having suffered from this form of depression. However, the Infanticide law in our Criminal Code is the very worst kind of political correctness. The maximum sentence for this offense is 5 years. In practise, few serve any jail time at all upon conviction. This seems really counterintuitive to the goals of sentencing, not to mention commons sense and dignity. I just have a REALLY hard time accepting mitigating factors and mental-illness defenses when they trespass on childrens' welfare.

I totally agree with you, Lemmy.
I do understand it, but I do not condone it. She should be sentenced harsher.

"Ratushny said the "absolute impulsiveness" of placing a bag over the baby's head, and then removing it — albeit too late — in the midst of her "panicked and confused state" right after his birth was another important mitigating factor."

To my mind, if she removed the bag and than later put it back shows a mitigating factor that she was aware she had done wrong. Putting the bag back and dumping the body shows clear awarness of the situation. The Calgary Herald reported yesterday that she also attempted to revive the baby, which again show a level of consienceness the I would see as rational thought, I would have sought a harsher sentence based on these facts, not a more leinient one.

The great Canadian justice system, you can do anything if you can make someone think you were confused or temporarily out of sorts.

This woman was 25, not some knocked up teen, she denied her pregnancy for months, if anything thats when she had issues with reality. Put her in the nut house as she's obviously deluded.

Remember Robert Latimer ?

He got 10 years, and was denied parole because he wasn't playing kissy-kissy with the parole board.

What's the difference between this case and his ? Oh... the dangerous ding-a-ling between his legs is the difference I think.

Obfious gender bias in sentencing.

Why the hell do we even have a criminal code offence called "infanticide"?

We already have an offence on the books for people who kill other people, its called MURDER. :roll:

Just another example where women have 'excuses' while a man in the same position would have 'responsibility'. Sorry to say it like that but it's true. If this was a man all his crying and 'emotional mental state' jibberish would be moot.

(sits waiting for a woman to tell him he doesn't know what it's like to have a child -- as if that could excuse it)

I will be the first to tell you you are talking a load of bullshit. I guess you have no clue what hormones can do to someone. Combine that with a mental disorder and this is what you get.

You DON'T know what it is like to have a child. So don't pretend you know you do.