Dismisses postpartum mental health as a plausible factor in the crime
While the defence raised infanticide due to disturbed mental state post-childbirth, the article presents the prosecution's rebuttal as more convincing, emphasizing pre-existing anger issues and lack of observed psychiatric disturbance, thereby undermining the legitimacy of postpartum mental health claims.
“'The prosecution says there is another feature of the evidence which is highly significant. It is agreed between the psychiatrists... that the defendant was prone to outbursts of anger and irritability. These were pre-existing features of her personality, not something caused by childbirth...'”
