Sanity alert: If you’re feeling vulnerable,do notread the rest of this post. It’s a bummer. I don’t always report this kind of news anymore, mainly because I myself don’t like reading about it, but since there seems to be several unhappy things happening at once I thought it important share them. So proceed at your own risk.
A judge has ordered psychiatric reviews for a 25-year-old Stamford, CT, woman charged with killing her newborn son. Angelina Sarmiento has been found competent to stand trial in the death of her newborn son on Oct. 29, 2008. Her attorney says the exams may help determine if she was experiencing postpartum psychosis after the boy’s birth. She has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and is being held on $1 million bond.
In California, Kristina Fuelling has beensentenced to more than 6 years in prison, with at least 6 months to be spent in a psychiatric facility, for killing her infant daughter. Two separate medical evaluations found 27-year-old Kristina Fuelling was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and was legally insane when she drowned her 8-day-old daughter in January 2008. Her attorney, Tom Johnson, said Fuelling will spend at least six months in a psychiatric facility, then be reevaluated. Then, she would either serve the rest of her sentence in state prison or be held indefinitely in the psychiatric facility. Her husband and family are fully supportive of her.
Meanwhile, in Ft. Carson, Colorado,a newmom who is thewife of a soldier serving in Iraq disappeared last Friday and is considered missing.The woman’smother has saidher daughter has postpartum depression and was not taking her medication.
