The whole story is incredibly tragic; I'm shocked at the verdict. The poor thing was obviously completely unhinged, and the fact that she continued having children spaced so closely together AFTER having already suffered from severe post-partum depression, being placed on anti-psychotic medication, and being expected to home-school(!!!) them all adds up to her husband being at least as responsible for what happened as she was, in my opinion. A woman who's already suffering from psychological problems should NOT be enlarging her family, and the additional strain undoubtedly played a part in her eventual breakdown.

Those poor children; I wish they'd stop showing the home movies of them on the news, it's just too horrific to contemplate, no matter how you look at it. I'm going to risk saying something offensive here and say that all I can think about that jury is that they're an incredibly ignorant group of arrow-minded people who imagine that because an obviously deranged woman says that "Satan" told her to do something that she later acknowledged was a "bad choice", she had any conception of the difference between right & wrong, or reality & fantasy, for that matter. I can't help wondering what the outcome would have been if she'd been tried in a place like Boston, for instance. I don't think "the voice of Satan" would be considered admissible evidence.