Originally posted by WolfChan
The more I think about this, the more I agree that the mother should be taken somewhere where she can learn some communication skills. Prison is going to do nothing for her if she doesn't understand what she's done.
I think the problem will lie however, in determining the difference between her not understanding how to communicate, and not understanding right from wrong.

If she is mentally capable of understanding right vs. wrong, nurturing vs. murdering ... then she attempted to murder an innocent newborn in cold blood. Whether or not she has the power of speech or sign language does not change this.

However, if she is completely incapable of understanding what she did (which, frankly, takes someone VERY far gone, IMO) then sure, she needs help and a place to go to live out her life with supervision.

Disabled people understand death and killing. Handicapped people understand murder. She was certainly mentally astute enough to understand that shoving toilet paper down the throat of someone not capable of removing it will cut off the airflow and kill that person, right?

I just don't want to see the facts confused. Just because she can't speak or communicate does not automatically mean she does not comprehend killing. She may not ... but it needs to be determined.