It’s weird to me the level of deranged guilt her diary entries show.

We are responsible for our actions. I just wonder wtf was going on in her head that allowed her to keep doing it. She hated herself for it. Like a lot.

This is a mental health issue and we need better mental health care options, preferably free.

Yes, but it’s difficult to access. You need to want to get the care and actively campaign to be referred.

And that’s the “easy” things like anxiety or garden variety depression.

As soon as it gets complicated it’s a whole other story.

If she never tried to seek it out, then it doesn’t even matter as it appears she didn’t give off any “I murder babies” vibes to the extent that the investigation was delayed beyond a reasonable length of time because she was not suspected of such a thing.

It’s so hard, because those families have it so amazingly awful but I can’t imagine her being a sane person and doing what she did. She shouldn’t be on the street and she needed help a long time ago.

If you think about it you have to be some level of insane to commit a murder

Nah, not self defense.

That would not be murder, then. Murder requires premeditation.

Premeditation is only required for first-degree murder.

Depends on the jurisdiction. Some places call homicide without premeditation “manslaughter”. Colloquially, murder has intent.