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rachel1

(538 posts) Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:39 AM Nov 2012

Cops: Newborn stabbed to death hours after birth

A 21-year-old Clarke County woman accused of stabbing to death her newborn was arrested and jailed on Friday morning, according to police.

Investigators have not yet determined when the baby was born, but believe the boy lived only hours, Capt. Clarence Holeman with Athens-Clarke County police told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“We know it (the birth) was sometime today,” Holeman said by phone on Thursday night.

Police issued an arrest warrant late on Thursday for Cassandra Elyse Norwood of Athens, and she was placed under guard at an Athens hospital, police said.

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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/cops-newborn-stabbed-to-death-hours-after-birth/nStkp/

Heartbreaking, just heartbreaking.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the title but it's also exacerbated by the fact that other mothers have been arrested for infanticide.

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Cops: Newborn stabbed to death hours after birth (Original Post) rachel1 Nov 2012 OP

few clues as to why yet bench scientist Nov 2012 #1

Sounds like Postpartum Psychosis Science Geek Nov 2012 #2

I think you're right... redStateBlueHeart Nov 2012 #3

I was thinking the same thing. Quantess Nov 2012 #6

that is just terrible liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #4

This is why abortion should be widely available Daemonaquila Nov 2012 #5

bench scientist

(1,107 posts)

1. few clues as to why yet

Reply to rachel1 (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:10 AM

Nov 2012

so far, she has not been not receiving psychiatric treatment at the hospital before being sent to jail.
The family didn't know she was pregnant and there is no known history of drug abuse.
been the lead story here in Athens for the last 2 days.
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2012-11-02/athens-mother-jailed-newborns-murder

Science Geek

(161 posts)

2. Sounds like Postpartum Psychosis

Reply to rachel1 (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:30 AM

Nov 2012

Very sad, infanticide after childbirth is usually due to profound postpartum depression (melancholic filicide) and it is often accompanied by suicide. It is a sudden and very profound form of PPD (postpartem depression) that closely resembles a profound psychotic break complete with vivid auditory and visual hallucinations, utter despair, feelings of profound worthlessness, waking terrors, self-harm, etc...

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_psychosis

redStateBlueHeart

(265 posts)

3. I think you're right...

Reply to Science Geek (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:53 AM

Nov 2012

I agree that it was likely PPD. So sad...kind of reminds me of the case of that poor 14 year-old girl from Florida who hid her pregnancy from her family and committed infanticide right after birth

Quantess

(27,630 posts)

6. I was thinking the same thing.

Reply to Science Geek (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:44 AM

Nov 2012

She must have been mentally ill.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)

4. that is just terrible

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Sun Nov 4, 2012, 03:00 AM

Nov 2012

Daemonaquila

(1,712 posts)

5. This is why abortion should be widely available

Reply to rachel1 (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:37 AM

Nov 2012

and carry no stigma. If this mother hadn't had a child she couldn't handle, she wouldn't have ruined her life and killed a being able to at least somewhere appreciate it's predicament and pain.

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