[deleted] t1_j66codb wrote on January 28, 2023 at 12:50 AM

Reply to comment by Witty-Milk-5924 in 8-month-old baby injured in Duxbury family tragedy dies, DA says by Jezebels_lipstick

Me too. I truly do not understand how the kids were allowed to stay in the home with an actively psychotic person. ETA: you can believe if this wasn’t a well to do family in duxbury and there was a psychotic parent in dorchester these kids would have been removed

TalentedCilantro12 t1_j66l6n5 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 1:56 AM

I do agree there should be more attention to mentally ill individuals who commit murders, pregnant or not. BUT it does take a lot to remove a kid from the household whether they are from Dorchester or anywhere else.

[deleted] t1_j66mu8j wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:09 AM

I understand. But when children are at risk of being killed and there is not a dedicated 24/7 shift worker keeping eyes on the psychotic person, how did anyone think it was ok for the kids to stay there? The father was working from home, taking care of the kids and managing a psychotic person by himself? That is unmanageable for one person

TalentedCilantro12 t1_j66neg6 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:13 AM

You are right but doing something like that is very hard to do in the community. Hopefully the mental health providers watched her carefully and if she had any sort of statements implying suicidal/homicidal thoughts they would have her in a facility with 24/7 monitoring.

[deleted] t1_j66n2l2 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:10 AM

And I don’t necessarily mean that DCF needed to get involved but maybe have family members take the kids until it was safe?

TalentedCilantro12 t1_j66nkwi wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:14 AM

That's actually pretty much the standard for kids who are abused, etc. I just hope the place she was attending for care made suggestions to not leave her alone, etc and hopefully family or friends could have stepped up to help (if husband told them about it)