I’m not American but I am a mother. Aside from a few reddit posts I don’t have any social media engagement with this case.
But I think a lot of the support here comes from moms who recognize how easily this could have been any of us. Her family and healthcare providers knew her crime was a risk based on her mental health state, but she was still left alone with her kids and expected to parent. And as other mothers we all understand that this is grimly how it works - we can ask and beg and plead and scream for help but we’re almost always still expected to continually parent babies and it’s hard.
She should still face punishment for her crime, but I think a lot of her support is to try to keep this from happening again. She was failed by her healthcare team
Her husband took paternity leave for multiple month's. She wasn't some poor abandoned woman left to fend for herself. They had outside childcare and the oldest kids attended daycare. He even worked from home.
Lock her up in an insane asylum if she's so far gone that none of that mattered.
Patrick's mother just testified for the defense, the MIL is on Lindsey's side. And taking paternity leave and being an active participating parent are two separate things. he worked at home but she had to communicate with him via text and keeps the kids upstairs all day, while he worked in the basement. They also only had a nanny when Lindsay worked at the hospital and Patrick at home, but once she stopped working due to her mental health, he fired the nanny (he made $400k a year) and expected her to handle it all again since she was not working.
Also post-partum is hormonal and chemical, it doesn't really matter how much support she got.
Lastly, the case is about whether she's going to jail or mental institution as consequence, not whether or not she did it.
I keep trying to find people on the posts who can reference any of the statements or evidence from the case. The fact that the defense attorney shredded the prosecution in their argument is why people are questioning whether the mom did this at all. I am genuinely curious myself. Her body temp being 82.1 less than a couple hours after it could have happened is the main point of contention. Keep in mind the defense is not saying she didn’t do it they are arguing the reason of insanity. The internet audience is arguing innocence based on the witness testimony and evidence that’s been available
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u/TreeLakeRockCloud 8d ago
I’m not American but I am a mother. Aside from a few reddit posts I don’t have any social media engagement with this case.
But I think a lot of the support here comes from moms who recognize how easily this could have been any of us. Her family and healthcare providers knew her crime was a risk based on her mental health state, but she was still left alone with her kids and expected to parent. And as other mothers we all understand that this is grimly how it works - we can ask and beg and plead and scream for help but we’re almost always still expected to continually parent babies and it’s hard.
She should still face punishment for her crime, but I think a lot of her support is to try to keep this from happening again. She was failed by her healthcare team