Grandmother threw 2yr granddaughter to death because she felt unloved by family

[HipChick]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/grandmother-told-police-she-threw-granddaughter-to-death-because-she-felt-unloved-by-family/2011/09/27/gIQALIdp2K_story.html


A grandmother who threw her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a sixth-floor walkway at Virginia’s largest shopping mall told detectives in a taped confession that she felt unloved by her family and jealous of the attention her granddaughter received. More than anything, Carmela dela Rosa told detectives, she was angry at her son-in-law James Ogdoc for taking her daughter away from her and saw killing the infant as a way to get back at him, according to the confession. The tape was played to jurors Tuesday at the woman’s murder trial.

In her confession, though, dela Rosa explicitly states that what she did was wrong. “I did a terrible thing,” she told the detectives. She also admits that her intent at the time was to kill Angelyn and that she hatched the plan several minutes before carrying it out.
She told the detectives that her anger boiled over at her family during a visit to the mall’s food court. She first became angry that her husband, son and daughter were speaking to each other in a sort of silent code that excluded her that day.

She admitted to detectives that she always disliked James Ogdoc, who was her daughter’s high school sweetheart at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington. The anger became more pronounced when he got dela Rosa’s daughter, Mary Kathlyn, pregnant out of wedlock. The couple married just before Angelyn was born in June 2008. “He took her from me too early. He didn’t give her a chance to explore,” dela Rosa told the detectives.

[pitohui]

1. i'm guessing in a few years she'll develop full blown dementia

the awful stage is the part where the grandmother is still walking around and seems perfectly normal except she suddenly comes out with this out-of-nowhere insane whackshit

horrible to think a child lost her life as a result

my guess is the grandmother's brain is damaged and this will become apparent as the years go on

terrible tragedy, makes me sick to read it

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. This story says she was off her meds

She's also only 51. While I understand there is such a thing as early dementia, she was not an old woman.

http://oakton.patch.com/articles/dela-rosa-went-on-and-off-medication-in-years-leading-to-murder

[Major Nikon]

7. Most likely she had deeper psychological problems

The article said she attempted suicide twice in the months before the event.

Very sad all the way around.

[dana_b]

2. omg...

this woman is jealous of anyone that takes her daughter's attention away from her. That poor little girl... and now the little girl's mom will probably hate her own mother. So sad.

[WinkyDink]

3. A two-year-old is not an "infant." And this defendant is insane.

[Little Star]

4. This makes me sick! I know she must be mentally ill but...

how can any mother be jealous of her daughters husband? Not liking him is one thing but jealous? Jealous enough to kill your own grandchild? Turns my stomach! Poor little 2yr old and the rest of her family.

[Edweird]

6. NPD?

[greiner3]

8. "speaking to each other in a sort of silent code"

Mental illnesses are on the rise and there is no help on the way. In fact, dollars for the mentally ill are on a huge decrease and episodes such as this will become a lot more common place in the years to come. This has been the trend since Reagan years when the Republican idea was to shut most of the mental hospitals in the country. That sure saved a lot of money! It's just that it is costing so much more now with cases that do not make the news go on every day in America.

I'm waiting for someone in politics or media (FOX, Rush or such) to bring up one of Hitler's solution for the mentally ill-execution.

I am so ashamed of my country.