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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 444009" data-attributes="member: 33">In the UK mothers who kill their babies (a rare occurrence in itself) are rarely convicted of murder. They are generally prosecuted for infanticide which recognizes that severe mental illness can happen after birth. Infanticide is considered as a mental health crisis rather than cold-blooded murder. This allows judges to focus on medical care instead of punishment and sentences often include probation, supervision or hospital orders rather than prison.Men do not suffer from postpartum psychosis so as [USER=57]@Seaviewer[/USER] points out, comparison with other cases, particularly those involving men, are not relevant.As for familarising yourself with the case, the people who were most familiar with the case were the jury who sat through 6 weeks of evidence and 11 out of 12 of them thought she was not guilty of murder.</blockquote>