She's a Woman...So She Must Be the Victim

Hat tip to Outdoors at Antimisandry for the following....

Mother Charged in Deaths of Two Vancouver Infants

The news article tells of Vancouver mom, 24 year old Sarah Jee-Wah Leung, who has been charged with the murders of her two infant sons. The body of one was found a year ago in a plastic bag outside of Leung's home. Leung was questioned at the time and then released....allowing her to become pregnant again. The body of this newborn son was buried in a landfill.

Now, I could spend great lengths of time discussing failures on behalf of the legal system that allowed Ms. Leung the opportunity to murder a second baby, but that isn't the intent of this post. Nor is the intent to vilify mothers everywhere because of the actions of Ms. Leung. What I do want to address is the shocking comments from some concerning this woman's actions.

A few examples from the comments section,

If you impregnate a woman that child is your responsibility. If you think there is a chance that you could have impregnated a woman it is your responsibility to determine whether or not she is really pregnant with your child. If you do otherwise you are a deadbeat that is not taking responsibility for his actions It does have to involve both parties, a baby is made up of 2 people! Unless the father was unaware that he had a child with this woman then he should be charged!! Probably not with murder but with neglient of a child, and accomplice to a crime considering he should have been around taking care of his child to have known the mother's mental state! Both parties acted in a disgusting manner!

Charged with what, pray tell? Murder? A man, merely by fathering a child, should be held culpable for the mother's actions? Unlike the innocent babies she murdered, Ms. Leung is not a child. She is solely responsible for her actions. The father(s) who may not even be in Ms. Leung's life or aware that he is a father, bears no responsibility for the actions of Ms. Leung.

I would have thought that she'd receive therapy after the first event and be under some supervision. Failing that, where were the concerns of her neighbours? This location is one of the most culturally diverse in town, take care of one another!

Please notice how this commenter refers to murdering one's child, putting his body in a plastic bag and tossing it out in the yard as "the first event". This isn't a horrific evil act...it's just some little event that took place a year ago. Of course, the real issue is that the neighbors weren't around and helping poor Ms. Leung out. Surely they bear responsibility for the repeat of that first little mishap.

Where is the man who fathered the pregnancy?
Does he know that his babies were killed?
Tow of them should be proceeded to court charges. Not the mother only.
If they didn't try to act the mating themselves in the first place, there would be no such miserable mischief taking place.
Once they had held hand in hand doing the close intimacy, started from the inception moment, they didn't take the contraceptive precaution preparation, they should know there were chances to be getting pregnancy. But, unfortunately, they had missed it out the precaution taken before enjoying their desire of copulation. They have to pay for their irresponsibility.

More trying to redirect blame to the father.

There is also the possibility that this was the result of very serious, yet undiagnosed post-partum depression.

Can't forget the usual standby....postpartum depression.

It takes two to tango. No charges for the man who impregnated this woman?
Obviously, not all the story here.

There's more....but you get the gist. A woman has done something despicable and the first response by many is to find someone else to blame....because we all know that women are incapable of horrific acts and that evil is solely the realm of men. Surely it must be the fault of the father, the system, forces beyond her control or society in general.

I left the following comment on this article and encourage others to take the time to comment as well.

*Sigh* As usual, a woman is accused of committing a horrific crime and the apologists start coming out of the woodwork. Instead of frantically seeking for somewhere else to direct the blame, it's time to start holding women accountable for their actions. Two dead infants, seemingly at their mother's hands, and all some people can do is try to find somebody else to blame. 'Where is the father'....because surely we can assign some blame to him.

I wonder where the father is as well. Very possibly, the mother doesn't even know herself who the father(s) is. Very possibly, the man or men never even knew they were a father. Also possible, some poor guy is going to find out that the child he never knew he had was murdered at the hands of his mother. It's telling when the focus of two dead babies becomes who failed the mother and how.

What is painfully clear is the desperate attempt by the morally defunct to remove all accountability from women. I've seen discussions on children who commit murder that are far less forgiving toward the perpetrators then people often are toward women who commit similar crimes. I've often opined that feminism, despite all it's squawking about empowerment and equality, has been very effective in reducing women to the status of children. I'm starting to rethink this position. Lately, I've noticed that children are often held to a higher standard of accountability than women. We must not criticize, we must not condemn, we must never question....even if we're talking about something as horrific as the murder of infants.

The feminist hierarchy is very clearly set with women firmly at the top. The focus of this tragedy should be on the lost lives of these innocent babies. Where instead does it go? Upon the woman. Dead babies are all but forgotten in the desperate bid to free the mother from bearing the responsibility for and the consequences from her actions.