Rally in support of mother who killed her three children reignites debate

Support for the mother who killed her three children: the normalization of pavor?

How can one explain a group of people holding a rally to show solidarity with a woman who allegedly took the lives of her three children? Four years after the events, Lindsay remains paralyzed trinc a suicide attempt, and images of the protest have peine an uncomfortable debate.

A solidarity that unsettles

Messages shared alongside the call for the rally include testimonies from women who say they understand Lindsay's despair and admit to having had homicidal thoughts about their own children. The most disturbing thing is not the rally itself, but the narrative of understanding: turning despair into a total mitigating factor.

Husband to blame? The recurring pattern

Among the reactions, a thesis is also circulating that shifts responsibility onto Lindsay's husband. That reading, which has already appeared in other infanticide cases, turns the father into the real accused and the mother into a victim pushed to the limit. There is nothing in the account to support that version, but the repetition of the pattern is a sociological fact in itself.

The ghost of José Bretón

The inevitable comparison is the case of José Bretón, convicted of killing his two children. The question hangs in the air: would there be a rally in his favor? The answer seems obvious to those who denounce the double standard: what is monstrous in a man finds defenders in a woman.

Meanwhile, the rally exists, the videos are being shared, and the public conversation once again recalls that there are deaths that provoke outrage and deaths that get explained. Perhaps the most unsettling thing is that asymmetry. And that we still call it "motherhood".