Woman Gets 50 to Life in Child Drowning

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Woman Gets 50 to Life in Child Drowning
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By MICHAEL VIRTANEN, Associated Press Writer

TROY, N.Y. - A mother diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic was sentenced to the maximum 50 years to life in prison Wednesday for drowning her 4-year-old son in a bathtub last year and attempting to kill her other son.

Christine Wilhelm, 39, was convicted of murder last month in the drowning death of young Luke. She was also found guilty of attempted murder for trying to drown Peter, then 5, who escaped her grasp.

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[dofus]

1. How sad.

She's diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, and she'll spend the rest of her life in jail, where she'll get no treatment for her illness. What a country!

[MountainLaurel]

2. Actually

She'll probably get treatment in jail, perhaps for the first time on a regular basis. In a lot of areas, incarceration is the only time the poor get proper mental health treatment. A few years ago, DOJ was looking for ways to see that released inmates get the proper treatment in the community, but I'm sure all such research was eliminated when AssKKKroft became AG.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Isn't it also an awfully lengthy sentence in comparison to

many other cases?

[Skittles]

4. yeah, that will teach all those paranoid schizophenics not to . . . .

oh never f***ing mind.

[Sick of Bullshit]

5. So one paranoid schizophrenic drowns a defenseless boy

and gets 50 years to life,

while another paranoid schizophrenic attacks two defenseless countries, causing countless civilian deaths,
and is hailed as a "popular wartime president"