Ames
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According to the article regarding motives...
"Researchers, building on the work of Phillip Resnick, have shown that women tend to kill their own offspring for one of several reasons: because the child is unwanted; out of mercy; as a result of some mental illness in the mother; in retaliation against a spouse; as a result of abuse. Frequent themes are that they themselves deserved to be punished, that killing the children would be an altruistic or loving act, or that children need to be "erased" in order to save or preserve a relationship. Contrast this with the reasons men kill their children: Most frequentlylike Garcia or Soltysthey kill because they feel they have lost control over their finances, or their families, or the relationship, or out of revenge for a perceived slight or infidelity. The consistent idea is that women usually kill their children either because they are angry at themselves or because they want to destroy that which they created, whereas more often than not, men kill their children to get back at a womanto take away what she most cherishes."
None of this fits in the Ramsey case.
No one is suggesting mothers don't kill, we are suggesting that the motives, the way in which they are killed and the hindsight that reveals behavior of the perp. parent that should have been more of a concern are factors that are present in every case. The patterns do not fit this case.
Mothers kill their children. Not all children killed are killed by their mothers.
Well, see...that depends on which RDI you ask. Some believe that Patsy DID kill JB out of mercy. She knew that the head wound was so horrific, that JB, if she lived...would most likely be brain dead. So..that's where the garotte came in. Just out of curiosity....how do YOU explain away Patsy's fibers found entwined in the garotte, inside of the paint tote..and on the STICKY side of the tape covering JB's mouth?