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Originally posted by Bill O'Rights
It is good that we, as a civilization, still find such horrific acts reprehensible. I fear that one day, we will view such an occurance as merely that, an occurance.
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While I find it horrible that such a thing happened, this is not all that shocking or new a concept. People have been doing such things- gruesome murders- for a very, very, very long time. We hear about them more now because of internet, satellites, etc.
There are 6 billion+ people in the world, many types of known psychoses, and many more we have no way of directly identifying. Sometimes people's brain chemistry just... gets fucked all to hell, to put it plainly.
These people are disturbed, to be sure, but that does not mean that society as a whole has a breakdown in morality.
Based on the fact they wouldn't release the autopsy results, and she has been institutionalized, that the woman really did put the baby in the oven and bake it. If not, it's possible she strangles/drowned it and THEN decided to burn it to get rid of the body. Thing is, burning flesh stinks and it might have freaked her out into stopping the oven.
Some people are intentionally sadistic, but some people are just mentally dysfunctional.
What I really find interesting is the amount of extra "outrage" there is when it's a baby or child. They are not more important than adolescents or adults, in my opinion.