[Architect of Avalon]

The punishment needs to be much more severe as this was, in practice, homicide by the mother of two innocent little toddlers.

[Timpanagos1]

“Blonde, blue-eyed kids,” he told Fox 29 San Antonio in a report that aired Friday.”

Why would that be relevant?

Does that make their deaths more tragic or the crime more horrific?

The sheriff is way out of line on that one.

[Timpanagos1]

It’s a bit odd.

Her bond is only $70k and for now is facing only child endangerment charges. That’s two years max.

It seems by now they would have enough evidence and witness statements to up,the charges.

If she is released in bond, her first act will be to get pregnant again.

[jalisco555]

Seriously, “child endangerment”? That’s it? This sounds like murder, or at least manslaughter.

[Cowboy Bob]

No comments from the husband? /sarc

[SkyPilot]

She will never be punished by the legal system as if she were a man who had done the same thing. Ever. We have seen this time, and time, and time again.

"Not Guilty By Reason of Ovaries."

There is even a legal term, taught in law schools and in criminal justice, that is called "The Chivalry Explanation in Legal Cases."

Women are held to a different, and lesser, legal standard than men are, especially for crimes against their own children.

We saw this in case of Susan Smith. Instead of being a cold blooded murderer, the defense lawyers presented her as a "distraught mother" and the jury even stated that "she was a jilted victim, a loving mother with severe emotional issues."

Women who murder their children will also claim postpartum depression, which serves a legal innoculation from even the most henious and severe of crimes.

[Morpheus2009]

It should be murder, and if not guilty by reason of insanity, go to a mental institution with other psychopaths to crazy for prison.

[SgtHooper]

She needs to be subjected to the same method—in a car in the heat.

[deport]

...

Amanda Hawkins was arrested Thursday in San Antonio and is awaiting to be transferred to
Kerr County, Kerr County Sheriff W.R. Rusty Hierholzer said in a statement. She is charged
with three counts of abandoning or endangering a child and is being held at Bexar County
Jail on bail set at $105,000, according to court records.
...

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