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Infanticide: Marie Noe
One by one, between 1949 and 1968, each of the 10 children Marie Noe bore died. One was stillborn, one died at the hospital just after birth, the others expired at home, just infants, in their cribs, where Noe said she found them blue, limp, or gasping. Doctors, including some of the most respected pathologists of the time, could find no explanation for the eight crib deaths. In 1999 she was sentenced to 20 years of probation, beginning with 5 years of house arrest. Part of the sentencing agreement was that have intensive psychological testing to better understand what triggers such a behavior in a mother. Noe did not stay at home as agreed to and but she was not going to psychiatric appointments. Studies show she suffers from "mixed-personality disorder." MPD. The psychiatrist John O'Brien, ruled out neurological problems, Munchausen's by proxy, and dissociative disorder (formerly known as multiple-personality disorder) and there was no need for her to receive counseling. The judge ordered she continue under house arrest and continue counseling. Kari & Associates Copyright Kari Sable Burns 1994-2006 |
Cradle of Death - John Glatt
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by Margaret G. Spinelli Maternal infanticide, or the murder of a child in its first year of life by its mother, elicits sorrow, anger, horror, and outrage. But the perpetrator is often a victim, too. Spinelli asks us to enter the minds of mothers who kill their babies-with the hope that inquiry in this neglected area of maternal-infant research will save young lives. 
