Post: #1

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/justice/fl...van-ocean/

Police: Mother who drove into ocean with children accused of attempted murder

Quote:(CNN) -- A woman accused of driving a minivan into the Atlantic Ocean with her three children in Florida was arrested Friday on three counts of attempted first-degree murder, Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson said.

Investigators say they think Ebony Wilkerson was trying to kill her children -- ages 3, 9 and 10 -- when she drove into the surf Tuesday in Daytona Beach, Johnson said.

"She actually told them to close their eyes and go to sleep, she was taking them to a better place," he said.

Bystanders and beach rangers went into the water and rescued the children, witnesses and police said. Wilkerson tried to keep rescuers from pulling her children from the minivan and at one point was fighting her son for control of the steering wheel, Johnson said.

Johnson said Wilkerson told investigators she was trying to drive out of the surf, not into it, and has denied trying to harm her children.

Tim Tesseneer was driving along Daytona Beach on Tuesday with his wife when they noticed the minivan driving through shallow water. They heard the screams, he said, of two children, who were crying and waving for help out of one of the rear windows.

Tesseneer threw the car in park and raced over to help. One child was screaming, Tesseneer recalled Wednesday to CNN's Piers Morgan. " 'Please help us, our mom is trying to kill us.' "

The other child he could see was wrestling a woman for the steering wheel. But the woman just kept saying, " 'We're OK. We're OK. We're OK,' " as another man joined Tesseneer trying to get the driver to stop.

With the minivan in the cold, heavy surf of the Atlantic, the second man, Stacy Robinson, opened a door and pulled out the two panicked children. There was a good chance if he and Tesseneer hadn't been there, the children, ages 10 and 9, would have drowned inside the van as it pitched in the water, officials said.

Another child, a 3-year-old girl, was strapped in a car seat. A lifeguard dived in through a front window and unbuckled the child and handed her to another lifeguard as the vehicle bobbed in water about 3 feet deep.

The mother just walked away, Tesseneer said, silent with a strange, almost "possessed" look on her face.

While there is no evidence that drugs or alcohol were involved, Johnson said one goal of charging her was to make sure she gets help for any possible mental issues.

"This is a tragic event. And our goal is to get her into the system so that we can protect the children and take whatever action we need to help her, too," he said.

Wilkerson also is being held on three counts of aggravated child abuse, Johnson said. She has not yet requested an attorney, he said.

Yep. Let's hope she gets help for her mental illness, because no woman would ever do anything evil because she's a bad person or something.

Post: #2

I've noticed this when women abandon newborn babies on doorsteps and in dumpsters.

The police and media coverage is always focused on the mental wellbeing of the mother, and how she will need medical help to deal with the emotional trauma that made her do such a thing.

Good luck trying to get any sympathy if a guy does that.

Post: #3

Notice how the police want to "help" her. It can't be a moral failing. It must be a disorder that is not her fault.

Post: #4

I watched the news conference.

Cop just stated we are making this decision based on facts, like her fighting one of the rescuers and her kids testimony.

At the conference, all the female reporters kept bringing up mental illness as a defense, but the male reporters weren't going for that angle.

Women can't do anything wrong.

I don't wanna pre-judge but this sounds like a death sentence case.

Post: #5

You can get the death sentence for attempted murder? I didn't know that.

Also - the whole thing is so sad. The victims in this case are the children - yet I am sure the kids wouldn't want to see their own mother put in prison.

Incredibly sad all round. Since when justice is served - it harms the victims all over again.

Post: #6

This is beyond disgusting. Fucked up to the chore. This protectionism of women must stop. What do you think would have happened if it was man at the wheel of that car? He would have been shot by the cops and if he had somehow miraculously survived that, he would have been dragged into jail and treated as a terrorist. Now because she's a woman, she's treated with care and attention and the media is trying to focus on the hardships that she must have been facing in order to do that. Not on what this sicko tried to do: kill her own children! She deserves nothing but lifetime prison with no option of parole!

This double standard cannot go on!

Post: #7

I'm not sure there's anything lower than killing your own kids, but women will always be somewhat excused from responsibility.

At least they survived - there are thousands of cases of women going over the edge, and for some reason, drowning them seems to be their method of choice.

But as fucked up as this case is, it's got nothing on a case from my city a few years ago, which still blows my mind.

Quote:A woman convicted of fatally stabbing her 15-month-old daughter has walked free from a Perth court after a judge said she had suffered enough.

Nicole Frances Bryan, 23, stabbed her daughter Chenelle with a long-bladed kitchen knife as she was cradled in the arms of her father, Geoffrey Miller, at their Dawesville home, south of Perth, in March last year.

On Friday the Supreme Court was told the pair had a four-year history of domestic disputes in which Miller had been violent towards Bryan, but she seldom notified police and would not heed advice to lodge an official complaint against her de facto husband.

She told police she had targeted Miller in the attack and accidentally stabbed her daughter.

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/mother...z2vQFT1Y7U

That's right folks - she walked free for stabbing her baby daughter to death, on the grounds that she was "only" trying to stab the babys father. Not sure how "abusive" he could possibly have been with a baby in his arms, but white knights wouldn't concern themselves with such trivial details.

Post: #8

wow - that is some shit right there.

Men are fucking clueless. They have no idea how much the system is stacked against them.

Thomas Ball couldn't even get a wikipedia page.

Who is Thomas Ball?

Exactly!

Post: #9

(03-08-2014 07:56 PM)Vroom Wrote:  I'm not sure there's anything lower than killing your own kids, but women will always be somewhat excused from responsibility.

At least they survived - there are thousands of cases of women going over the edge, and for some reason, drowning them seems to be their method of choice.

But as fucked up as this case is, it's got nothing on a case from my city a few years ago, which still blows my mind.

Quote:A woman convicted of fatally stabbing her 15-month-old daughter has walked free from a Perth court after a judge said she had suffered enough.

Nicole Frances Bryan, 23, stabbed her daughter Chenelle with a long-bladed kitchen knife as she was cradled in the arms of her father, Geoffrey Miller, at their Dawesville home, south of Perth, in March last year.

On Friday the Supreme Court was told the pair had a four-year history of domestic disputes in which Miller had been violent towards Bryan, but she seldom notified police and would not heed advice to lodge an official complaint against her de facto husband.

She told police she had targeted Miller in the attack and accidentally stabbed her daughter.

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/mother...z2vQFT1Y7U

That's right folks - she walked free for stabbing her baby daughter to death, on the grounds that she was "only" trying to stab the babys father. Not sure how "abusive" he could possibly have been with a baby in his arms, but white knights wouldn't concern themselves with such trivial details.

Jesus, I found another news article that had comments, and like 80% of the comment section is actually sympathetic to the woman. I think banning violent video games is making Australians nutty or something.

Post: #10

Obviously, the patriarchy made her.

Quote:That's right folks - she walked free for stabbing her baby daughter to death, on the grounds that she was "only" trying to stab the babys father. Not sure how "abusive" he could possibly have been with a baby in his arms, but white knights wouldn't concern themselves with such trivial details.

Fuck this world

Post: #11

If some women was trying to drown her kids and was fighting me to save one, i would punch her in the face.

Bitch needs to be sent to an aslyum for a long long time.