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A young mother allegedly fed her baby a teaspoon of salt, killing the 17-month old, in a bid to get her estranged husband back into her life, it has been reported. Kimberly Martines’ daughter Peyton died on Wednesday after being on life support since her mother allegedly fed her salt on July 31.
Excuse me? She could get "up to 20 years". For murder?
I had never heard of a salt poisoning death, besides the science fiction series Alien Nation for that alien species. I would guess it would fall under Felony Murder even if there was no proof of her finding out that salt is lethal from some source.
This is terrible, but it happened almost a year ago...why is it all of a sudden a news story being written up. Nothing new has happened, it sounds like
This is terrible, but it happened almost a year ago...why is it all of a sudden a news story being written up. Nothing new has happened, it sounds like
Dozens if not hundreds of these crimes happening across America each week.
It makes you feel by default that people are evil and that occasional good comes out of them.
I suspect people were getting better for when we were "uncivilized", especially when morals were dictated by religious adherence.
I say this as not a particularly religious person, but one that recognizes how this anything goes mentality has had a direct correlation with the loss of religion in our culture.
Even an atheist and/or agnostics must admit that religion keeps it followers from acting on all their base instincts. That is not to say religious people do not break the law or are perfect by any means. However many try to follow the teachings, and are less likely to commit vile/despicable things as a result.
The point being that we are all capable of evil and good, and only religious and/or societal teachings/pressures help to keep us in line. Life is still cheap to the truly evil, but it is likely more valued than it use to be. Or at least it was getting there until the aforementioned.
Excuse me? She could get "up to 20 years". For murder?
It may be an intent issue. She may have only planned to make the baby sick enough to bring her ex rushing to the bedside, and oops, it killed her.
The only other case I know of like this was the social worker who slowly poisoned one of her kids to death, apparently using baking soda or salt in the formula, and was starting on another when the MDs finally figured out that she was the one doing it. Both of them were adopted baby girls.
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