10 Disturbing Details Surrounding The Belgium Mother Who Grilled Her Daughter Alive

6 /10 The Mind Of A Criminal

Mental health professionals hired by the police have since then attempted to explain the workings of the mind of someone who would kill their child.

In the words of the criminal psychiatrist Hans Hellebuyck, who spoke in the name of the police department: “If the woman made such remarks (that is, on having to burn to go to Heaven) and truly meant them, it is possible that she is mentally ill. I am not saying it is like that, but it is something which has to be taken into account.”

But the question remains, however: exactly what mental illness can cause you to act in this revolting, blood-curdling way?

5 /10 Preventable Crime?

Knowing this might be the key to preventing future crimes like these if they can be prevented.

It is a fact that most of these crimes happen in private settings, where nobody else was there to stop them, but perhaps if the persons with precisely the sort of mental troubles that make them do such things could be detected and surveilled, crimes like this could be prevented.

In an offense that leaves us with so few answers and so many questions, it could be possible to explore similar cases to see if there is a regular pattern that could help their prevention.

4 /10 Smothered In 2015

A very similar case took place two years before, in 2015, thirty-five-year-old Latisha Fisher killed her twenty-month son in a restaurant bathroom in New York.

On being interrogated by the police, she claimed that no other force than the Devil himself had made her do it, at the same time contradictorily stating that she had “put my hand over his mouth to put him to sleep.”

It was also reported that she tried to prevent employees of the restaurant from performing CPR on the boy.

3 /10 Soulless

Much like the case of the murderous mother in Belgium, law enforcement agents were also unable to extract an explanation from this woman.

Apart from noticing that she was too depressed, the officer stated: “I would describe her as soulless.” It seems to be the case that these murderous parents pretend to go through with their murders as part of a suicide bid.

Still, they never quite finish the job by killing themselves, raising the question of whether the underlying motivation for their crimes lies in them blaming their children for their mental illnesses.

2 /10 Brazil Is Horrified

Even more horrible is yet another case of a mother murdering her daughter, which took place in Brazil in January of this year.

Josimare Gomes Da Silva, of thirty years of age, did nothing less than gouge the eyes out of her daughter with a pair of scissors, later cutting her tongue and trying to eat it.

The child’s grandfather found them both in the bathroom, with the mother praying alongside the gruesomely killed girl’s body.

1 /10 Psychotic Episodes

As in the past two cases, it was known afterward that the mother had a history of mental illness and psychotic outbursts.

The following morning, she also gave contradictory statements to the police in several languages, in one of them even denying to have committed the horrendous crime.

This indeed points out specific types of mental illnesses, which could be assessed and used to prevent events like this from ever happening again.

Until then, we can only remain horrified at the idea of when something of the sort will happen again.