Woman Smothers 8 Babies over 17 Years

[JustJo]

I read this report earlier today and it's been messing with my head ever since, especially since (in the article I read and will try to find) a police official said that there had been several other similar cases recently.

It's heartbreaking, disturbing, disgusting...so many things...

For me, it doesn't sound like post-partum depression. She was hiding her pregnancies every time...so much so that her husband is claiming that he didn't know his wife was pregnant with any of them. That's not post-partum...that's something else entirely...to start early enough to keep an entire pregnancy secret and then kill the infant, over and over and over and over again?

She also wasn't a very young woman who freaked out at the thought of motherhood...she was a mature woman with two daughters. She had had the experience of carrying a baby to term twice and raising those children. To me, that makes it even more chilling somehow.