|
|
-
Watch for new True Crime Books and DVDs as they are published!
-
Books On Child Abuse
Child
Abuse Cases
Baby
Killer by Mark Gado CrimeLibrary
Feature on Marybeth Tinning
Schenectady, N.Y.
From 1972 to 1985, Marybeth Tinning, a school bus driver,
pediatric ward nurse's aide and mother to nine children
that died in infancy. After her first child died of meningitis,
friends, relatives and medical professionals believed
the other infants succumbed from "crib death" or
a bizarre inherited defect. Marybeth was alone with her
babies as they stopped breathing. Autopsies
cited the cause of death as "sudden infant death" or a "death
gene," but
Baden was suspicious after learning her adopted
2-1/2-year-old died. During a police interrogation, she
confessed to smothering three children and but then retracted
the confession. Marybeth who had postpartum psychosis, probably
killed all the children. Charged
in eight suffocation deathsshe was imprisoned for the murder
of the ninth baby. Marybeth
enjoyed the attention at the funerals of her 9 of
children. Tinning
Case Grand Jury
From
Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth
Tinning's Nine Children -- by Joyce
Egginton
 Infanticide:
Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers Who Kill --
by Margaret
G. Spinelli --
Maternal infanticide, or the murder of a child in its first year of life by
its mother, elicits sorrow, anger, horror, and outrage. But the perpetrator
is often a victim, too. The editor of this revealing work asks us to reach beyond
rage, stretch the limits of compassion, and enter the minds of
mothers who kill their babies-with the hope that advancing the
knowledge base and stimulating inquiry in this neglected area of
maternal-infant research will save young lives. Written to help remedy today's dearth of up-to-date, research-based
literature, this unique volume brings together a multidisciplinary
group of 17 experts who focus on the psychiatric perspective
of this tragic cause of infant death. The first of four parts introduces historical and epidemiological
data. Part II discusses the psychiatric, psychological, cultural,
and biological underpinnings of infanticide, detailing how to
identify, evaluate, and treat postpartum psychiatric disorders.
Contemporary legislation, criminal defenses, and disparate treatment
in the U.S. law are described in Part III and compared with the
United Kingdom's model of probation and treatment. Part IV focuses
on clinical experience with mothers as perpetrators and countertransference
in therapy, mother-infant interactions (from healthy to pathological),
and methods of early intervention and prevention. This balanced perspective on a highly emotional issue will find
a wide audience among psychiatric and medical professionals (child,
clinical, and forensic psychiatrists and psychologists; social
workers; obstetricians/gynecologists and midwives; nurses; and
pediatricians), legal professionals (judges, attorneys, law students),
public health professionals, and interested laypersons.
January 5, 2006
Copyright Kari Sable Burns 1994-2006
|
Support his site with your purchases!
Prom Mom - Melissa Drexler
Amy
Grossberg & Brian Peterson
Jon Benet Ramsey
Yates Children
Baby Sabrina
Patty Rebholz
Martha Moxley
Opal Mills
Violent
Women
"Are
You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates" Suzanne
O'Malley makes a critical contribution to our understanding
of mental health issues within the criminal justice system.
Journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders
of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary Yates hours after their
mother, Andrea Yates, drowned them in their suburban Houston
home in June 2001. Under less extraordinary circumstances,
a mentally ill woman would have been quietly offered a
plea bargain and sent to an institution under court supervision.
March 12, 2002, Andrea was found guilty of the murders
of three of her five children. She is currently serving
a life sentence and will not be eligible for parole until
2041. O'Malley's exclusive communications with Andrea and
Rusty offers portrayals of people at the center of this
case.
Child Abuse and the Criminal Justice System (Studies in Crime and Punishment, Vol. 9) by Kimberley A. McCabe
|
