The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 6: Mens Rea
Page 9: Situations
Finally, meet Lucy: a single mother.
Screaming baby, tired-looking mother.
She’d rather just be single.
Mother pressing hands to her temples in pain and frustration.
So she poisons her little boy Ricky with pesticide, and he dies.
Silhouette of mother with white eyes holding a can of pesticide, standing in fog, looking down on viewer
“Llluuucccyyyyyyyy, you got some s’plaining to do.”
Yeep. From what I hear, someone’s spending the next few years in solitary.
But what if Lucy had postpartum depression? Could she plead insanity or something?