Alex Spourdalakis

[conuly]

He was murdered by his mother a month ago, but I'm just hearing about it now. Clearly I haven't been paying enough attention.

The same ninnies are advising us all not to judge her, after all, raising an autistic kid is so hard. To which I say the same as I always inevitably do: fuck it. The bare minimum of parenting (and let's face it, this is a pretty low bar) is that you don't kill your own child. Or at least, you don't do it on purpose. How much more basic can we get here?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mother-murders-severely-autistic-son-cops-article-1.1371310

Comments

[conuly]

If the commenters defending her were using that argument, they wouldn't be so annoying. "Clearly she wasn't totally in her right mind, she killed not just her son but her cat" is a lot more defensible than "you can't judge her unless you've narrowly avoided murdering your own disabled child".

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

i don't get the whole "You can't judge X" argument anyway. Clearly, people can judge, and do judge, and will judge whether or not other people judge them in turn for doing so. Anyone who's narrowly avoided killing their own disabled child, I would judge to be in need of immediate help, and I'd further judge the child to be in need of help, up to and including removal from the care of someone who considers murdering him or her.