How in the hell could you?

[mayqueen517]

Only a short post....

How the FUCK can a woman kill her own children? How?

It's beyond me.

Those kids that died in a fire near my house were killed by their mother.

That's right.

Said that the woman is arrested currently and their dad lives up in Monroe. It's assumed that the children were still alive when she set the house on fire.

It's beyond me why some of this shit happens.

ETA---Here's the stuff from my local news reporting on it. It's not alot of info but it's there and in a form that explains it.::

Mother Charged With Setting Fire Which Killed Her Two Children


Midland, NC -- Cabarrus County deputies charged a mother with murder and arson in the fire which killed her two children at their home on Candilara Lane in Midland on Tuesday.

Lisa Greene was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with two counts of 1st degree murder, one count of 1st degree arson, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Greene had told investigators shortly after the fire that she was sleeping in the living room of the home, woke up and sprained her ankle trying unsuccessfully to reach her eight-year-old daughter, Addison Macemore and 10-year-old son, Daniel Macemore.

Both children were students at Bethel Elementary School.

Sheriff Brad Riley said Friday night that the evidence collected at the scene did not match all of Greene's statments.

Riley said an open flame started the fire at the home, but he would not provide other details about the cause.

God rest their little souls.

Comments

[fillefjonkan.livejournal.com]

What the fuck? How? What? Why? I'm sorry, I just don't get it. How the fuck could someone do something like that?

[forest-fruits1.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!? That is beyond horrible...that's just plain evil. How the hell anyone can do something like that is unthinkable. It's at times like this I really do wonder what is to become of the world.

~Forest

[stonefinder.livejournal.com]

The human mind is a very powerful thing and can convince itself to do almost anything. That is why and how atrocities happen. People let it happen, no matter how much they know it is wrong, because they convince themselves that under whatever the circumstances, it's okay. Look at Sophia's Millennium, for example. Yes, it's fiction, but it provides a very good example of how sane, upright, rational and moral people can justify all sorts of atrocities in the name of some greater good. It's a defense mechanism, when it doesn't get toxic, the enables survival. Trouble is, it is so easily turned toxic.

Denial and rationalization are very, very powerful. Don't kid yourself.

[sophia-lde.livejournal.com]

We once had a case here in Germany where a mother was accused of having murdered her two daughters. She spent several years in prison and everything sounded very convincing. Then the case was reopened again and suddenly it didn't look so clear anymore. In the end she was released and I think her husband or boyfriend or whatever he was at that time, was arrested. In addition to having her daughters murdered, this woman also spent several years in prison for it, being innocent.
Since then I've started to treat cases like this very careful. Of course it's possible that she did it, but sometimes it's difficult to say what has happened.