Not another one!! What wrong with the world!!??

[amysusi]

Pa. Woman Charged With Killing Young Sons
By MARK SCOLFORO

MOUNT JOY, Pa. (AP) - A woman was charged with criminal homicide in the deaths of her two small sons after police traced a 911 call from someone who said: ``I did something really bad. I just killed my kids.''

Meghan V. Lippiatt allowed police responding to the call Sunday into a farmhouse where they found Silas, 2, and Miles, 4 months, under a blanket on a bed. They apparently died of suffocation, and Silas' hands were bound behind his back with flexible handcuffs, police in south-central Pennsylvania said.





Lippiatt, 28, was hospitalized for an overdose of over-the-counter painkillers. A hospital spokeswoman would not release her condition.

A note recovered from the scene read, in part: ``I am sorry, I didn't want to hurt anyone. ... I am sorry, goodbye. Please help me from the grave.''


Lippiatt and the two boys recently moved back to her parents' Lancaster County home from England, where they had been living, Susquehanna Regional Police Chief William B. Roberts said.


The father, Daniel Lippiatt, lives in England and has been notified of the deaths, Roberts said.


Police said Meghan Lippiatt's father told them she had been distraught lately and had previously threatened suicide.


Investigators said autopsies on Monday failed to establish an exact cause of death for the boys, and more tests were scheduled.



04/19/04 23:06


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[MamaFairal]

Good Lord.......again??

[lassss]

That is about 10 minutes from where I live....so sad..they are saying it was postpartum depression :(


People/relatives/doctors need to be more informed and possibly prevent such a tragedy.

[Bick'sMom]

I remember with my first baby I had done some reading about Post Partum Depression and I was so scared that I was going to get it and hurt her.

This is so sad. Why are doctors, nurses, and family not watching for this?

[DivineMsDi]

Part of me just wants to shake the woman and say, why did you threaten suicide then kill your babies????

I cannot concieve of a mind that kills a child....especially your own. Guess this is "another" one who will claim insanity then get off....or send away w/out jail time.

Obviously she was upset and depressed. Maybe she split from the father of the kids and was looking for a way to "get him back."

I don't know...just shaking my head and walking away from this one. :mad:

[schsa]

Doctors and therapists cannot monitor a patient 24/7 unless they are in a hospital and we don't hospitalize mental health patients unless they are harming themselves. We generally don't consider the fact that they might harm someone else. And when we do hospitalize someone who is suicidal, we keep them in patient as little as 3 days, then your insurance will send you to out patient therapy. Which gives you all sorts of time if you aren't stable to commit suicide again or to harm someone else.

Trying to get care for mental health conditions is extremely difficult especially if you really need intense care. You are better off having cancer or a major stroke. There is such a stigma with mental health that people who need care don't go and get it. Men are the worst at thinking that they can just get over it. And women hide from getting care, especially if they are at home because they can hide away and not deal with the rest of the world.

I will never understand it. I feel for the father, the poor children and for her. What a messed up group of people. And why didn't someone see that she was getting some sort of care?

[twinkiesmom]

How tragic. It's really too bad things like this have to happen.

[Damnifiknw]

Which gives you all sorts of time if you aren't stable to commit suicide again or to harm someone else.

The sad thing is these people will not commit suicide They are to chicken to take their own lives. Instead they take childrens lives. If they would just take their own, everything would be all fine and dandy.

[MsLynn]

I know i got a 911 call the other night from a man who all he would tell me was "i've been a bad bad man", over and over and then hung up on me, OMG I WAS TERRIFIED. 1000's of things ran through my head in minutes and this one THE BIGGEST that kept coming back.... i ended up getting 2 more hang up calls from the same number before i could trace it....(it was in the next county, thats why i wasn't getting a name and addy on the call) and sent them out. LUCKILY, it was just a domestic between a mother and mentally unstable son who was off his medication, and they took him to a mental institution where he'll be for a while. not sure what he was thinking, but i'm thinking it was his way of getting help BEFORE he did anything.

Luckily i never had anything remotely resembling post partum depression... i was more homicidal to anyone who disturbed my preciuos lil darling while they slept, or made loud noises that scared them.. i just can't imagine.