By: Christine Flowers
I write this as the jury is deliberating over whether a mother who systematically killed her three children, one by one, should be held responsible for their deaths. Lawyers have given their closings. Witnesses have testified. Photos have been shown. Opinions have been formed, calcified and fossilized into certainty. Regardless of what the verdict is, regardless of the sentence, there is no persuasion possible. She is either Medea, or a victim. Nothing less than these two poles.
