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wellspoken
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 Posted: 04/03/04 - 20:24 Post subject: Mom describes on tape how she smashed sons' skulls
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/04/01/children.slain.ap/index.html
TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A housewife said the first sign that God wanted her to kill her three boys came Mother's Day weekend when she saw her 14-month-old playing with a toy spear.
Deanna Laney said she resisted at first, but the signs kept coming. The baby came to her with a rock, and later in the day squeezed a frog, and she believed God was suggesting that she should either stab, stone or strangle her children.
A sobbing Laney recounted in a videotape played at her capital murder trial Wednesday how she smashed her sons' skulls with rocks to prove her faith to God.
"I was telling him no, and each time it was getting worse and worse, the way that it would have to be done," Laney said. "I thought it was the Lord saying to me, 'You're just going to have to step out in faith. This is faith. You can't see why. You just got to."'
The state rested its case and Laney's attorneys were expected to begin presenting evidence Thursday.
Laney, 39, who homeschooled her children in the tiny town of New Chapel Hill, 100 miles southeast of Dallas, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity in the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke and serious injury to a child in the beating of the 14-month-old, Aaron.
Five mental health experts consulted in the case agreed Laney met the standard for legal insanity. But prosecutors want a jury to decide, saying other evidence suggests Laney could tell right from wrong.
The defense is trying to convince jurors that the signs from God were actually psychotic delusions caused by a severe mental illness that made Laney incapable of knowing right from wrong at the time of the killings, the standard in Texas for insanity.
Dr. Park Dietz, a psychiatrist who interviewed Laney in the tape, called her a textbook case of insanity, concluding she did not know right from wrong at the time she attacked the boys.
Prosecutors tried to convince jurors that regardless of whether Laney believed she was doing right by God, she had to have known she was doing wrong by state law. Her first call, prosecutors said, was to 911 to summon authorities.
Dietz said Laney wasn't thinking about state law when she killed the boys, but acknowledged that she probably knew her act was illegal at the time.
In the videotape, Laney said she believed she and Andrea Yates, the Houston woman who drowned her children, were chosen by God to be witnesses after the world ends. Yates was convicted of capital murder in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison.
Laney said she awoke just before midnight on May 9 and "I just got this feeling that now's the time."
She said she went into Aaron's room and bludgeoned his skull with a rock she had hidden under his crib, but he wouldn't quit breathing.
"I told the Lord, 'You're just going to have to do the rest. I can't do anymore,"' Laney said. She said she put a pillow over his head to mute a gurgling sound.
She killed the older boys next, one at a time, guiding them outside and hammering their heads with a heavy rock. She dragged Luke by his feet across the yard so that Joshua wouldn't see him.
"I don't remember seeing their faces at all," Laney said in the tape.
| Quote: | | I don't remember seeing their faces at all |
g*****n, i mean what the f**k!
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GruntingCod
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 20:30 Post subject:
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Haha man'o'man.
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atarom
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 20:31 Post subject:
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but jesus told me to!
god that is so f****d up =/
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Docter
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 20:33 Post subject:
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Could it be...SATAN?!?!?!
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Xarpolis
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 20:44 Post subject:
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She is an inspiration for us all.
Infact, I'm going to go get in my car right now and cruise the neighborhood for little insuborinate children to instill my own wrath upon... In the name of Christ of course.
brb.
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Renork
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 21:00 Post subject:
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If God tells a rich person to give 1/2 their money to charity the person is blessed, he tells them to kill their kids and they are insane. WTF. With God being involved they need to pick a standard. All insane or all "blessed by God"
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NickPSH
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 21:05 Post subject:
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I don't know why but this is making my stomach sick. That "seeing one of your own fellow human beings ran over before your eyes" stomach sickness.
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Docter
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 21:07 Post subject:
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So, because some psycho states that GOD was talking to her, everyone wants to believe her???
She's psycho and is just looking for an excuse, IMHO.
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wellspoken
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 21:14 Post subject:
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| Docter wrote: | So, because some psycho states that GOD was talking to her, everyone wants to believe her???
She's psycho and is just looking for an excuse, IMHO. |
wellspoken Docter.
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Xion
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 21:30 Post subject:
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she was just found innocent
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Minion
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 21:40 Post subject:
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| Xion wrote: | | she was just found innocent |
AFK, my neighbor is watering is lawn, I think god is telling me to drown him.
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Lumberg_fekdher
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 21:53 Post subject:
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/03/children.slain.ap/index.html
TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of her sons was acquitted Saturday of all charges after a jury determined she was legally insane during the killings.
A jury found that Deanna Laney did not know right from wrong May 9 when she killed her two older sons, ages 6 and 8, in the front yard and left the youngest, now 2, maimed in his crib. Laney, 39, was found not guilty by reason of insanity of charges of capital murder and serious injury to a child.
Laney broke into tears as the verdict was read. Her husband, Keith Laney, sat emotionless. A few jurors cried and struggled to maintain their composure.
State law allows Laney to be committed to a maximum security state hospital. Medical evaluations will dictate when she will be released.
In closing arguments earlier Saturday, prosecutors portrayed the killings last Mother's Day weekend as deceptively planned and coldly executed.
"It was graphic, it was horrific and it was brutal," prosecutor Matt Bingham told the jury.
Laney had faced life in prison for the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke, and the beating of Aaron, now 2.
Bingham pounded his fist in his hand as he recounted Joshua's killing: "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid."
Defense attorneys argued that insanity was the only reason why a deeply religious mother who homeschooled her children would kill two of them and maim another without so much as a tear.
All five mental health experts consulted in the case, including two for the prosecution and one for the judge, concluded that a severe mental illness caused Laney to have psychotic delusions that rendered her incapable of knowing right from wrong during the killings -- the standard in Texas for insanity.
Psychiatrists testified that Laney believed she was divinely chosen by God -- just as Mary was chosen to bear Christ -- to kill her children as a test of faith and then serve as a witness after the world ended.
Prosecutors portrayed the killings as deceptively planned and coldly executed. They said that even if Laney believed she was doing right by God, she had to have known she was doing wrong by state law. Her first call, they pointed out, was to 911 to summon authorities.
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quotison
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 21:54 Post subject:
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I'm confused. If God tells you to brutally murder your children, and you do so, because God is good and you want to go to Heaven, why do you tell people you're insane? Shouldn't you be spreading the great word of God? Who cares if you're going to jail for a few years, if you truly believe in Heaven?
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Goraz
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 22:01 Post subject:
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This mother needs to die.
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Zwadrich
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 22:04 Post subject:
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sick religious f***s...
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Mugaaz
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 23:03 Post subject:
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She's just a total psycho, it has nothing to do with religion or rocks or toilet training.
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Kazkuk
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Posted: 04/03/04 - 23:07 Post subject:
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There needs to be some kind of deturrent to "insanity" pleas. maybe once some is found compitent and know what he or she did was wrong they can start serving prison terms accordingly.
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Stevie
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 02:54 Post subject:
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Praise the Lord!!! now where did i put my .45. Thsi woman is obviously of of her f*****g tree. But do you belive that she "heard" god or do you think she just woke up one morning and decided eh. im going to maurder my kids in the yard.
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wellspoken
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 02:56 Post subject:
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| Kazkuk wrote: | | There needs to be some kind of deturrent to "insanity" pleas. maybe once some is found compitent and know what he or she did was wrong they can start serving prison terms accordingly. |
If somone that committed a crime as serious/f****d up as this and then claims to be mentally challenged.
I vote we give her what she wants, mental institution for a lifetime.
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Neone
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 02:58 Post subject:
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I think they should BAN HOME SCHOOLING, because every f****d up case ive read about where the mothers f**k their children up, the kids were HOME SCHOOLED BY RELIGIOUS FANATIC IDIOTS, RAISING THEIR KIDS TO BECOME CRAZY f*****g RELIGIOUS FANATICS, WITH THEIR OWN HOME SCHOOLED KIDS.... vicious cycle
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wellspoken
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 02:59 Post subject:
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| Neone wrote: | | I think they should BAN HOME SCHOOLING, because every f****d up case ive read about where the mothers f**k their children up, the kids were HOME SCHOOLED BY RELIGIOUS FANATIC IDIOTS, RAISING THEIR KIDS TO BECOME CRAZY f*****g RELIGIOUS FANATICS, WITH THEIR OWN HOME SCHOOLED KIDS.... vicious cycle |
wow, this like strike a nerve or some shit?
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lauren000
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 03:03 Post subject:
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f*****g looney bins are probably worse than prison
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Neone
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 03:21 Post subject:
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Because ive seen it before, although this other b***h was worse, i cant remember exactly what she did but she home schooled her kids and never let them outside, so nobody knew what was going on.
She used to beat them untill they couldnt walk, every day
like badly beat them because 'jesus told her to' or some shit like that.
When they got older one of them wanted to leave the house, so her mum... SHOT HER... the chick fell back into the tub, and the mother HANDCUFFED her to the bathtub, nursed the wounds and left her there
the daugher healed and never asked about it again... untill one day a few years later, the mother said she could leave on the condition that she would be allowed to remove the bullet.. the mother did, the chick got some infection, the mother handcuffed her to the oven or something untill the chick turned yellow and was delerious... 'SATAN IS INSIDE HER!!'
so they threw her in the car and took her out into the woods and BURNT HER ALIVE (the mother had two sons who assisted in all this shit, they didnt live at home, the sons were f****d up and scared of her too)
Oh, and while they were driving her out to the woods to BURN HER ALIVE, poliece pulled them over, she told them that she was taking her to the hospital so they let her drive off... into the woods... to BURN HER DAUGHTER ALIVE..
the second daughter (out of three), wanted to leave home and stop being prostituted (becaues the mother also prostituted her three daughters starting when they were around 15years old), the mother i think beat the shit out of her and locked her in the closet, untill she STARVED TO DEATH.
the third sister went to give her some food when her mother went out on the fifth or sixth day, but she was already dead and it stank of rotting corpse, shit and p**s..
they stuffed the second daughters body into a box from where one of the sons worked and dumped her off a few miles from their home..
i think the third daughter was allowed to leave if she burnt the house down (cause it smelt like DEATH in the house)
so she burnt it down and was allowed to leave, or she ran away or some shit like that (she was the one who told the cops)
but you see, the two daughters were Jane Doe's, cause nobody knew who they were cause they were home schooled... im not saying home schooling is the problem really, i actually dont have a point at all, its just mindless ranting, but it feels good none-the-less.
i guess ill stop here...
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The Guy On The Couch
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 04:21 Post subject:
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i found it quite irronic that she just had to take a leap of faith by killing her children, then plead innocent. i would figure the leap of faith would also include a guilty plea.
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Mental_Hernia
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 04:49 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid." |
What..the..f**k
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Zwadrich
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 06:13 Post subject:
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| Mental_Hernia wrote: | | Quote: | | "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid." |
What..the..f**k |
b******t 
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Tendias
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 10:00 Post subject:
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| Zwadrich wrote: | | Mental_Hernia wrote: | | Quote: | | "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid." |
What..the..f**k |
b******t |
this kind of shit makes me sick
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Xarpolis
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 10:10 Post subject:
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I'm getting hungry, personally...
scrambled eggs with extra extra ketchup is on the menu.
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Fanelien
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 11:43 Post subject:
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| Neone wrote: | | I think they should BAN HOME SCHOOLING, because every f****d up case ive read about where the mothers f**k their children up, the kids were HOME SCHOOLED BY RELIGIOUS FANATIC IDIOTS, RAISING THEIR KIDS TO BECOME CRAZY f*****g RELIGIOUS FANATICS, WITH THEIR OWN HOME SCHOOLED KIDS.... vicious cycle |
Actually, I believe kids get much more "f****d up" by going to public schools, they will end up mixing with the type of uncontrolled children that you see at the shopping centres smoking, home schooling is also often the only option for children suffering from Asperger's Syndrome. You're looking at an extreme, bred by the American culture. To completely ban home schooling would put extra strain on the schooling system, not to mention putting certain children with mental disorders such as Asperger's at a huge disadvantage, in addition to breeding more chain smoking welfare bum children than there already are.
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quotison
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Posted: 04/04/04 - 12:21 Post subject:
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Its quite inaccurate to say that only f****d up mothers homeschool their children.
I'm not sure how it would make a difference here. If God is telling you to kill your children, you can always wait until after they come home from school.
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