Terminally Ill, Alleged Wife Killer
Vanessa Clark: Mom Convicted After Second Child Dies Sleeping With Her & Husband
Friday, April 6, 2012 at 9:15 am
Vanessa Clark has had two babies die while sleeping in the bed she and her husband share. She said they died from SIDS; a jury convicted her of reckless endangerment in the second incident, saying she'd been warned. Her oddly joyful mugshot was taken at her arrest a year after the latest death. Houston Press has the story.
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I agree this woman is an idiot but CPS has deemed Xanax and "several other bottles of legally prescribed drugs" to the mother the treatment for sids? Maybe they should have consulted their doctor about how to treat the baby so it wouldn't suffer the same fate. Apparrantly CPS changed their story on what they told the parents after the second kid died. I guess that's why the powers that be are attempting to ban "WTF." And good luck with the mandatory drug tests for legally prescribed drugs. Stupid.
I don't think that is her actual mugshot... looks like a photo someone supplied...but I can see what you are saying.
I can certainly understand differences in grieving...however, smiling like it's a photo shoot in your mugshot, well that just speaks volumes and not surprised there are marital issues.
Indeed. I also read that she and her husband were having marital problems because they had different ideas on how to grieve correctly.
Apparently, if you have to be born a psychopath, female is the way to go. The mask doesn't slip as quickly for them.
I slept with my children in my bed - ironically enough, because my second was prem and at increased risk of cot death - so I was advised to by my doctors! Also, she couldn't be laid flat to sleep due to a problem with her tummy, which meant all the contents just flowed out if she wasn't kept upright... :-/
I was a dream, actually - I had none of these baby sleeping problems that I hear of other people having, which is why I did the same with my others. However, all my babies wore a breathing monitor (a motion sensor which sounds an alarm is the chest wall stops moving), the bed was completely set up for babies (bed guard, no pillows near baby, no duvet near baby, hard matress so no rolling) plus I am a non drinking, non smoking, non drug taking light sleeper.
Co-sleeping is how it was meant to be - BUT you must prepare properly.
Why do you care if this women killed her kids or not? It's her child, one less genetically inferior whack job in the world.
That women clearly is psycho and does not love her kids... 2 times? seriously. Lock her up and throw away the key. Or better yet fry her stupid worthless ass.
Having a baby in your bed CAN work, providing:
- the baby sleeps on the outside of the bed, not in between you and risk getting rolled over on
- the baby doesn't sleep under your duvet and risk overheating but has their own appropriate number of blankets
- YOU AS A PARENT AREN'T WACKED OUT ON HYDROCODONE, XANAX, AND GOD KNOWS WHAT ELSE. Even alcohol can make you sleep too deeply and so it's not recommended to sleep with the little one if you've had a drink or two or ten.
I have slept with my babies in the marital bed many a time. A breastfeeding session in the middle of the night can often result in both of us falling asleep mid-feed. In fact i woke up one morning after my eldest had obviously kept suckling through the night, with a deflated teabag on one side, and EE on the other side :) . Whenever either little one has slept in bed with me i have EVERY time woken up in the exact same position that i fell asleep in - as if my subconcious (sp) refused to let me move and disturb or endanger the baby. I think it all boils down to how responsible a parent you are.
This cunt seems to be very dependant on all sorts of chemicals, can't be asked having to get up in the middle of the night to sort a crying freakin baby out, and doesn't seem at all bothered about having killed not one, but two little babes. I suppose it is possible that she started all those meds after the first one died to blank out the grief but i seriously doubt it. Not just because of her previous record, also because she made the EXACT SAME MISTAKE with number two. If the first one really was a case of SIDS and you did in fact care about the little ones, wouldn't you make extra sure that the second one wouldn't suffer the same fate as the first? I'm not surprised she got found guilty. I hope it sticks.
Completely agree with you... I've had the deflated teabag occur to me on more than one occasion and just got a huge kick out of you phrasing of that... Whenever I slept with my baby in the bed I was always uber aware of all the occupants positions and like you I always woke up in the same exact position. I did sometimes switch breasts and end up with baby in the middle, but always kept a protective army around the baby to be sure that their father couldn't roll over on them while we were sleeping. I think if I had had the trauma of losing a child that way there would be no way you could get me to pull the next baby into bed with me after that.
i thought doctors always tell there patents not do have the baby sleep in the same bed as them that they sleep safer in there crib i don't have any kids but that is kind of comen seance you would think
Carl, in the ten years between my kids, the doctors changed their minds in 180 degree turn on how to care for my babies... one thing was fine to do with my son, but then it was exactly opposite for my daughter.
