Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Plea yields mom's release
Photo at link confirms negritude in the first degree.
A Byram woman diagnosed with postpartum depression pleaded guilty Monday to smothering her 4-month-old daughter in 2003, but she won't spend anymore time in jail.
Veronica Hill, 35, had faced a capital murder charge but pleaded to manslaughter.
Hinds County District Attorney Faye Peterson recommended a seven-year sentence with six years suspended and credit for time served. Hill was released Monday because she already had served more than a year in jail.
Peterson said the plea recommendation was based on the woman's mental and medical conditions.
"She d
id not know the difference from right and wrong at the time," Peterson said. "She did not know what she was doi
ng."
Peterson said Hill is on medication and must continue treatment by a psychiatrist for the two years she is on probation.
In 2003, deputies responding to a 911 hang-up call found Hill armed with a steak knife and her daughter lying breathless under a pillow on the living room couch at Bradford Place Apartments. The baby was transported to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she died a short time later, officials said.
Hill, then a nurse at Baptist Medical Center, used the knife to slit her wrists before deputies were able to take it from her, authorities said.
The Washington, D.C.-based Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance says on its Web site that postpartum depression is a treatable medical illness characterized by feelings of sadness, indifference, exhaustion and anxiety following the birth of a baby.</b
>
The organization says the condition affects one in 10 women who have had a child. The exact cause of postpartum depression is not known, but chemical
changes in a woman's body during and after pregnancy may contribute to it, according to the Alliance.
Dr. Shambhavi Chandraiah, a psychiatrist at UMC, said the condition often is misunderstood and varies widely. The most severe form, postpartum psychosis, is rare. Chandraiah said a woman might hear voices and think people are after her and suffer delusional thoughts.
Circuit Judge Tome T. Green asked Hill if she was aware she was ill at the time. "No, ma'am," a crying Hill told the judge.
Hill has two children but said she didn't suffer postpartum depression with them. Her attorney, Jim Kitchens, said she is "a good person who has never been in any other trouble, and I don't think she will be again."
Kitchens said three doctors were prepared to te
stify Hi
ll suffe
red from severe postpartum depression, was psychotic at the time, and wasn't able to distinguish right from wrong.
"She has always been the sweetest person in the world," Kitchens said. "T
hat's why this is so hard to take."
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You can say the same thing about 99.9% of all niggers.
T.N.B.
Plea yields mom's release
Photo at link confirms negritude in the first degree.
A Byram woman diagnosed with postpartum depression pleaded guilty Monday to smothering her 4-month-old daughter in 2003, but she won't spend anymore time in jail.
Veronica Hill, 35, had faced a capital murder charge but pleaded to manslaughter.
Hinds County District Attorney Faye Peterson recommended a seven-year sentence with six years suspended and credit for time served. Hill was released Monday because she already had served more than a year in jail.
Peterson said the plea recommendation was based on the woman's mental and medical conditions.
"She d
id not know the difference from right and wrong at the time," Peterson said. "She did not know what she was doi
ng."
Peterson said Hill is on medication and must continue treatment by a psychiatrist for the two years she is on probation.
In 2003, deputies responding to a 911 hang-up call found Hill armed with a steak knife and her daughter lying breathless under a pillow on the living room couch at Bradford Place Apartments. The baby was transported to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she died a short time later, officials said.
Hill, then a nurse at Baptist Medical Center, used the knife to slit her wrists before deputies were able to take it from her, authorities said.
The Washington, D.C.-based Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance says on its Web site that postpartum depression is a treatable medical illness characterized by feelings of sadness, indifference, exhaustion and anxiety following the birth of a baby.</b
>
The organization says the condition affects one in 10 women who have had a child. The exact cause of postpartum depression is not known, but chemical
changes in a woman's body during and after pregnancy may contribute to it, according to the Alliance.
Dr. Shambhavi Chandraiah, a psychiatrist at UMC, said the condition often is misunderstood and varies widely. The most severe form, postpartum psychosis, is rare. Chandraiah said a woman might hear voices and think people are after her and suffer delusional thoughts.
Circuit Judge Tome T. Green asked Hill if she was aware she was ill at the time. "No, ma'am," a crying Hill told the judge.
Hill has two children but said she didn't suffer postpartum depression with them. Her attorney, Jim Kitchens, said she is "a good person who has never been in any other trouble, and I don't think she will be again."
Kitchens said three doctors were prepared to te
stify Hi
ll suffe
red from severe postpartum depression, was psychotic at the time, and wasn't able to distinguish right from wrong.
"She has always been the sweetest person in the world," Kitchens said. "T
hat's why this is so hard to take."
**************
You can say the same thing about 99.9% of all niggers.
T.N.B.