In spite of the great deal of cases, the cultural concept of murderous mother takes a lot of years to impose itself: the exeptionality of the events and also the explanations of the experts set these events in the general problem of human insanity.
But slowly the murder of children from their parents and particularly mother, assumes a shape of a specific category[1]. This process of transformation is accompanied and in our opinion slowed down by the psychological explanations of every single event which prevent them from being set in a general phenomenon.
In America the beginning is with Marie Noe, a mother from Philadelphia who in twenty years, from ’49 and ’68, eliminated eight of her ten children.
Times change and society accelerates and not to wait too long Susan Smith, a twenty-three-year-old girl from South Caroline, fastens her two children to the safety belt of her car sinking into a lake. Then she simulates an accident[2].
Andrea Pia Yates kills her five children whose age went from six months to seven years by drowning them, one after the other, in the bathtub of her villa at Clear Lake, a rich suburb in South Houston.
In Italy with the increasing of cases of murderous mothers ( and fathers ) the great mass of experts’ comments starts:
[1] We will define just murderous mothers.
[2] In the jail Susan Smith will be able to get pregnant by an attendant
More than emulation we prefer speaking of culture of murderous mothers and with this concept we intend some innate tendencies existing in the population and at the slightest stimulus they turn into a precise action of killing their children. The last newborn baby, killed by her mother, should have been put in a washing machine after being choked, but the similitude with Loretta Zen’s case where, on the contrary, her daughter had done a real cycle of washing, is very superficial.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in:
4) Murderous Mothers Fourth Part
5) Murderous Mothers Fifth Part
6) Murderous mothers Sixth Part
See also:
1) Murderous Mothers First Part
3) Murderous Mothers Second Part
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