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Not Guilty by reason of Insanity READ OP FIRST
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How can you possibly keep reading this and conclude what you are concluding? Seriously?
How can you read this and get angrier and angrier?
Are you reading the testimonies of not one, but two, psychiatrists that give an insight into her frame of mind at the time?
Are you reading the statement from Andrew?
Seriously, psychiatrists, the prosecution, defence, jury and husband all agree with this outcome yet for some reason you think otherwise.
I absolutely understand with three beautiful children involved (I've been hugging my own daughter a lot more over the last number of days) that it can lead to emotional reactions but you are simply not reading this case properly.On the evening of January 23rd last year, Ms Morley crushed between six and eight morphine tablets to put in the boys cereal and put a Tylex tablet containing codeine in her daughter’s drink. However, the accused “abandoned any further actions” to harm the children that evening as the two boys “spat out” their bedtime snack when they tasted it and her daughter did not consume much of the drink.
The trial was told that Darragh was the first child to be killed and there had been a disagreement that morning over the amount of “screen time” he was watching on his iPad and the television. After midday, Ms Morley said she “just had to end” their suffering, looked at the clock and remembered thinking “I could smother him now. I could kill him now”. She got some “brown thick tape” from the utility room and took plastic bags from under the sink. She put some tape over Darragh’s mouth, a bag over his head and a cushion on top of the bag inside the play tent. She said she “didn’t want to do it but had to do it”. He asked her “what are you doing mammy” and struggled under her for a few minutes before passing out. After he was dead, the accused carried his body to the master bedroom upstairs and put him on the bed.
After killing Darragh the accused said she felt she “couldn’t leave any of them behind” and put a plastic bag over Carla’s head and used a cushion to smother her. After bringing her body upstairs, she realised her daughter was still breathing and held her nose until this was no longer the case.
After collecting her eldest child Conor from school and bringing him to Tesco to buy a roll for lunch, she brought him home where they watched “Jurassic World” in the front room. She suggested playing a game where they first put tape over their mouths to see if he could talk through it and she then put a plastic bag over his head. The boy told her “Stop Mammy” but she said she did not feel that she could stop herself from suffocating him and pulled the bag tighter by twisting it. She told her son: “I’m sorry Conor”. She left him inside the play tent and was unable to carry him upstairs to his siblings’ bodies.
Ms Morley was recorded as telling psychiatrists from Tallaght Hospital in the days after the event that Conor was “more difficult” to kill and she had considered dropping him off at a friend’s instead so he would be safe. However, she said “things had gone too far” so she smothered him also.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/criminal-court/deirdre-morley-found-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity-of-murdering-her-three-children-1.4570351
I am sorry Faugheen but I am thinking of these three innocent little victims whose should be loved and cherished by their parents0 -
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