OMG This is too horrific for words. I canāt even begin to imagine. This woman is a monster
Wow. Crazy people will do crazy stuff.
Iām stunned the victim survived. I canāt imagine the horror sheās lived through.
I am rarely taken aback anymore by what humans can do to each other, but this story is so sad and creepy. My heart goes out to Ms. Wilkins. Planning to have a child can be one of the most wonderful events in a personās life, and to have something so terrible happen will leave unimaginable emotional scars that last forever. I hope Ms. Lane can find it in her heart to try and explain her motive(s), where her head was at at that time, and, yes, remorse ā but that all has to start with Lane accepting in her own heart what she did. Obviously the woman is mentally ill, but to what degree only her therapist(s) might have an idea. Sad on so many levels. Judge Berkenkotter did the right thing. Should Lane and her lawyer decide to appeal, I hope her lawyer can get through to Lane that she needs to address her victim. She owes her that.
100 years seems a bit extreme, but Iām willing to spend 30 years or so pondering whether Iām OK with it. We can revisit the issue then.
My immediate guess is she wonāt spend more than 30 - 40 years once she appeals it down a bit and good behavior is factored in. Iām okay with that so long as she comes to terms with what sheās done ā and makes some heartfelt, sincere attempts to apologize to the victim. I say that out concern for her own mental health as well, because if sheās not really well she may not be a good candidate to ever be in society again.
Wiki says the 1st recorded case of āfetal abductionā occurred in 1987. One case in 1995, '96, '98, '00, '03, '04 and '06. Two separate cases in 2008 and in '09. Three in 2011 and one in 2015ā¦all American.
Anyone aware of anything written speculating as to why this is happening now?
Damn, thatās freaky. Thanks for the info. I have no idea as to what these folksā motives were. Makes for some really interesting case studies, Iād imagine.
As usual, itās all punishment and nothing is spent on prevention and mental health. I saw on another post on TPM hat a serial sexual predator got only about 40 years. Multiple victims, etc etc. But in this case we just have one victim (still alive) but since the fetus was killed people cry for blood and tack on everything they can. People do not get that itās not about ādeservesā itās about stopping the crap from happening in the first place or at least making sure thereās a much less chance of it happens again
This an excellent question, is this indeed a uniquely American aberration? If so, this very much begs the question of why that is.
Take Dennis Hastert for example. 15 months after molesting 26 young boys!!!
Prevention is not the role of the court, except to make the punishment discouraging to others in the future. It seems that this particular crime has only been documented fewer than 25 times in history. I think anyone considering doing this would probably not be thinking clearly enough to be deterred by fear of consequences.
That said, it would be good to know if she got grief counseling after the death of her son. Your point is a good one that mental health care needs to be considered as important (and covered equally) by insurance.
I am really wondering how Lane could be living with a man and that he would not know that she wasnāt actually pregnant.
What a horrible, horrible situation.
Canāt find an article about it, but I gotta go with āItās Obamaās fault.ā
Since all but the first case mentioned above began in the mid-90s, I think we have to go with āitās Hillaryās faultā.
100 years? I bet she can knock it down to 95 with good behavior.
I would ask if she was on any anti-depressant medication to help her deal with the loss of her child.
Thanks for sensationalising a random act of horrific value.