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This is about a mother of two boys, one of whom has an autistic disorder, who snapped. She ended up pushing her seven year old son out of the kitchen window. He fell nine storey and died.
The day had
begun badly for her. She was having a cold war with her husband. He
didn’t take in the laundry even though it was raining. When he finally
did – after being shouted at – he threw the poles and wet laundry on the
floor. Then he left the house with their older boy, 14, who had to go
for tuition. So there was the 43 year old housewife, left to pick up
after his mess.
Then those
neighbours opposite her block appeared to be staring at her, and she
returned their attention with a rude gesture. But it also seemed that
some of her laundry poles had fallen off in the rain. So she got on a
stool set by the kitchen window to see if she could spot them. But she
felt dizzy doing so. She had a shower and went out into the living room
only to see that her seven year old had defecated in his pants and
fallen asleep in front of the TV. There’s more cleaning and washing for
her to do. That was when she saw that the stool was still by the open
kitchen window. And she saw the boy. She got him to stand on the stool
to look out for his grandmother. He did so. Then she held him by his
calves and tilted him over.
How little we know about what goes behind the doors of a household. How the little stresses can build up and finally explode in one action that will cause a lifetime of regret. She was depressed and saw the boy as the source of her exhaustion. It seemed she had a “mental history” since 2008 and is now getting psychiatric treatment in prison.
The husband and remaining son seem to be firmly behind her. They wrote letters to the court saying they want to be re-united with her. They’ve moved out of the flat. You wonder what they must be going through and how much blame they place on the woman – or on themselves. If the husband had only taken in the laundry…? [yahoo news]
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