Psychosis certainly twists the reasoning, its a license to kill, and the Children are the ones who really suffer!

Every day, Children Face Psychotic parents. Alone, without help, without a hope. When will governments give priority to treatment of parents of young children, and to prevention and support services and fund nnaami.

These parents always plead mental illness, to get out of facing the consequences. Parents with mental illness, they never think they are at fault!

Why was this mentally ill parent in the care of her child, and not in hospital?

I found this report in the, Herald Sun.

At least they did not try and tell us mental illness is no worse than the common cold.

I wonder how long will it be, before she is out of hospital and ready to kill again?

Jayne.

Sick mum killed son

Reported in The Herald Sun
By Katie Lapthorne
August 2004.

A MOTHER killer her toddler son because she hallucinated that he was Jack the Ripper, a court heard today.

Adele Denise XXXXX, 38 fed and anti psychotic drug to two year old Shaun Clancy and then suffocated him on march 20 2002, the Supreme Court was told. Ms XXXXX has pleaded not guilty to murder because of mental impairment to a charge of murder.

Prosecutor Mark gamble told the jury Shaun's naked body was found on the door step of the Ascot Vale flat he shared with his mother.

The court heard when police were called and approached Ms Stuart she was clearly psychologically unwell and denied Shaun was her child.

Mr Gamble said Ms XXXXX was a schizophrenic and after Shaun's death was made an involuntary patient at the Alfred Hospital before being transferred to the secure Thomas Embling psychiatric hospital.

The court heard a toxicology report showed Shaun had a 106mg/L of the anti psychotic drug prescribed to his mother in his blood, 100 times more thank the therapeutic limit for adults. Mr Gamble said Shaun also had bruises around and in his mouth consistent with a hand being forcibly placed over it to smother him.

He told the jury Mrs Stuart was experiencing frightening hallucinations on the day of Shaun's death.

"She said her head had started telling her that Shaun was Jack the Ripper and she had to kill him before he killed her " he said. The trial continues.