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[ailbhe]

A woman has been arrested after her baby was rescued from a smoke-filled house.

There were three children alone in the house, aged about 1, about 2, and about 3 (the one-year-old is the "baby" of the headline). Clearly she was wrong to leave them alone in the house.

But oh, by all the gods, I can think of so many ways to talk myself into thinking it might be ok. One year, two years, and three years. Gods.

I wonder have they any other parent, and will that other parent also be charged.

Comments

[ailbhe]

Well yes, and the time for my cousin's husband to realise that postnatal depression and psychosis is a real illness should have been *before* his wife and child died of it. People fuck up, and it's not usually because they are evil people who wanted to harm their children.

[piqueen.livejournal.com]

Point taken. I didn't mean to cause offence. I just can't imagine doing that but I also can't imagine what happened to your cousin. I think I need to learn to count my blessings for that.

[ailbhe]

Most of the mothers I've spoken to about it have said "I've never actually done it, but..." or "Of course you don't really do it, but..."

It's pretty easy to imagine from here.