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I had the same question. Seems like the perpetrator (her daughter?) was released from prison yesterday: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dee+Dee+Blanchard&sca_e

I had the same question. Seems like the perpetrator (her daughter?) was released from prison yesterday: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dee+Dee+Blanchard&sca_esv=594554241&biw=1353&bih=1038&tbm=nws https://www.google.com/search?q=Dee+Dee+Blanchard&sca_esv=59...

VBprogrammer 3y ago
I'm surprised none of you have heard of the story. It was subject to a pretty interesting dramatisation only a year or two ago. She may have killed her mother but doing so was not too far from self defense in my mind.
- casperb 3y ago
  I live in the Netherlands, probably not talked about over here. But second, I try to avoid the news. Glad I missed this one :)
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- stavros 3y ago
  She didn't kill her mother, though. She had someone else do it. I guess that's the problem, and I think he's still in prison.
  - VBprogrammer 3y ago
    Yeah, that's true. Also the preplanning aspect of it. I think if she'd have just snapped and killed her mum herself it wouldn't have gone to court. But someone who lived through that doubtlessly had a strange view of the world so judging her behaviour though any rational lens is probably slightly unfair.
  - fennecbutt 3y ago
    Men get tasked with violence at the behest of women far too often, imo.
lupusreal 3y ago
Seems like she (daughter) planned it or at least provided the weapon, but the person who actually did it was her boyfriend and is now serving life without possibility of parole. Kind of a crazy sentence considering the 'victim' truly had it coming (tortured her daughter for years, with unnecessary surgeries, feeding tube, etc)
- londons_explore 3y ago
  > unnecessary surgeries I hope the doctors involved got a decent reprimand for that too...
  - OJFord 3y ago
    The only example of surgery I saw was Botox for and then removal of the saliva gland, after the mother induced drooling by applying an anaesthetic prior to the doctor's examination. So yes there's some suspicions not reported or not well followed through on by some doctors and police, but it's clearly not that cut and dry, it was quite a fraud.
    - layer8 3y ago
      The Wikipedia page also mentions that “Tubes were implanted in her ears to control her myriad purported ear infections”.
      - OJFord 3y ago
        I missed that one, but my point wasn't that there was only one - it was that the mother was lying about things, doing deliberate fraudulent things to get that medical attention and treatment for the daughter. For the ear infection, maybe she just lied that the daughter kept complaining of hot itchy ears etc., or did something to them so that she did poke and scratch them (and the doctor could see that).
- s1artibartfast 3y ago
  It turns out you can't just go and unilaterally decide to kill people. There is a good reason people want government institutions to jealously guard this right. The government is very fickle with giving out the death penalty.

VBprogrammer 3y ago

I'm surprised none of you have heard of the story. It was subject to a pretty interesting dramatisation only a year or two ago. She may have killed her mother but doing so was not too far from self defense in my mind.

casperb 3y ago
I live in the Netherlands, probably not talked about over here. But second, I try to avoid the news. Glad I missed this one :)
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stavros 3y ago
She didn't kill her mother, though. She had someone else do it. I guess that's the problem, and I think he's still in prison.
- VBprogrammer 3y ago
  Yeah, that's true. Also the preplanning aspect of it. I think if she'd have just snapped and killed her mum herself it wouldn't have gone to court. But someone who lived through that doubtlessly had a strange view of the world so judging her behaviour though any rational lens is probably slightly unfair.
- fennecbutt 3y ago
  Men get tasked with violence at the behest of women far too often, imo.

lupusreal 3y ago

Seems like she (daughter) planned it or at least provided the weapon, but the person who actually did it was her boyfriend and is now serving life without possibility of parole. Kind of a crazy sentence considering the 'victim' truly had it coming (tortured her daughter for years, with unnecessary surgeries, feeding tube, etc)

londons_explore 3y ago
> unnecessary surgeries I hope the doctors involved got a decent reprimand for that too...
- OJFord 3y ago
  The only example of surgery I saw was Botox for and then removal of the saliva gland, after the mother induced drooling by applying an anaesthetic prior to the doctor's examination. So yes there's some suspicions not reported or not well followed through on by some doctors and police, but it's clearly not that cut and dry, it was quite a fraud.
  - layer8 3y ago
    The Wikipedia page also mentions that “Tubes were implanted in her ears to control her myriad purported ear infections”.
    - OJFord 3y ago
      I missed that one, but my point wasn't that there was only one - it was that the mother was lying about things, doing deliberate fraudulent things to get that medical attention and treatment for the daughter. For the ear infection, maybe she just lied that the daughter kept complaining of hot itchy ears etc., or did something to them so that she did poke and scratch them (and the doctor could see that).
s1artibartfast 3y ago
It turns out you can't just go and unilaterally decide to kill people. There is a good reason people want government institutions to jealously guard this right. The government is very fickle with giving out the death penalty.