The sentencing brought to a close a tangled and troubling trial that seemed to raise as many questions as it answered: Was Jude really being sexually abused, or did Jordan just believe he was? And if Jordan’s allegations of abuse weren’t real, was her child’s killing an outcome of delusion or a calculated murder?...
“I need to be dead. I need a lot of drugs to die peacefully. That’s all,” Jordan said at trial, reading what she said was a written dialogue between 8-year-old Jude and herself. Later, she said he wrote, “We are going to die anyway. Let’s do it ourselves.”
May 29, 2015
"If you had to do this over, would you end his life again?"/"I would have done a better job of making sure I ended my own."
Said "The millionaire mom who poisoned her autistic son and called it a mercy killing," who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced, yesterday, to 18 years in prison.
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Perhaps we should have PSAs say to those considering murder-suicide, if you're going to do it, do yourself first.
I would reference my Good Angel/Bad Angel comment in the earlier suicide post.
Being the obvious inspiration for this post, and all.
I am Laslo.
We had a murder attempted suicide by the mother around here. She tied her son to an old radiator and threw him in the lake, then she drank anti-freeze and slit her wrists in her car. They found her in her car with blood spattered windows. She had drunk too much anti-freeze and so she threw it up instead of dying from it. She quite successfully killed her son. This was because her husband and the father of the boy had left her for another woman. I can't imagine why.
The world would have been a better place had she force-fed her son the anti-freeze and jumped in the lake herself with a radiator tied to her.
Maybe sometimes the failure of the murderer to carry out the suicide part is because of a realization that it's too much of an easy escape and punishment is deserved. This woman called for emergency help as the son was dying. She allowed herself to be caught and now is taking the punishment she failed to avoid.
I'm surprised to learn that a socialite and self-made multimillionaire isn't smart enough to know that all of the boy's problems could have been avoided if she'd just have put him in front of a pinball machine.
Suicide is AWAYS from listening to lies from others or from yourself and obeying that person.
Otherwise it is an accident that just happens. There is no cause for suicide that just happens.
"too much of an easy escape and punishment is deserved."
More likely that their inherent selfishness kicks in right at the end and they decide life is worth living after all. Everyone second-guesses life decisions, especially when it comes to children. Pre-partum, post-partum, to an emotionally-challenged person, the timing might seem secondary to their desire for freedom (or revenge).
Ann Althouse said...
Maybe sometimes the failure of the murderer to carry out the suicide part is because of a realization that it's too much of an easy escape and punishment is deserved
It seems more likely their motivation is greater for one half of the murder/suicide combination than the other.
Ann Althouse...Maybe sometimes the failure of the murderer to carry out the suicide part is because of a realization that it's too much of an easy escape and punishment is deserved.
Maybe sometimes looking for laudatory angles leads one astray.
And speaking of antifreeze poisoning, "Married mother of two admits she killed her weightlifter husband by poisoning his steroids with anti-freeze just months after pining for her 'first and only love' on Facebook"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581481/Married-mother-two-admits-killed-weightlifter-husband-poisoning-steroids-anti-freeze-just-months-pining-love-Facebook.html
And she didn't even have the smarts to claim he abused her!
Women are notorious for failing at suicide. They attempt it more often than men and succeed less often.
This guy succeeded and left a letter for the cops to neaten things up.
Men, according to Christina Hoff Sommers, successfully commit suicide five times more often than women. Admittedly, part of this might be because a man's idea of suicide is "blowing his brains out," while a woman's is more likely "overdose of sleeping pills." Still. (This is Sommers fifteen years back or so; the data may have changed.)
Jude had been given a diagnosis of autism at 18 months. But Ms. Jordan testified she did not believe the diagnosis....
Ms. Jordan testified on Thursday that her son learned to communicate with her in March 2008 by typing notes on a laptop computer. Later, she said, he used BlackBerry cellphones to speak with her. Both of them wrote dialogue in a notepad program, she said... Earlier in the trial, a teacher at Jude’s last school testified for the prosecution that Ms. Jordan always helped him write the messages, holding his hand above the keyboard.
And they gave her Manslaughter?
How do you get manslaughter for premeditated murder? And if you think your child is suffering from inescapable abuse, wouldn't you kill the abuser and not your child? None of this makes sense.
Maybe she should have carried a mattress around.
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