Gina

[Gina @Gina1839]

@KyleSharkey8 Should be a T-shirt

[X Gen @XGenlmm]

I don’t know who I loved more in this moment. The judge, @kevinreddi35550 or @defense_diaries

[Gina @Gina1839]

https://t.co/kwyBIZWKHD

[Kelly💚🌴 @kelly_steffee]

📌Supporting the insanity defense is NOT the same thing as supporting, excusing, or justifying the deaths of three children.

Cora, Dawson, and Callan deserved to live.

FULL STOP

Trying to understand whether severe mental illness or psychosis affected someone’s ability to understand reality or control their actions is not celebrating what happened. It is literally one of the central questions this jury is being asked to decide.

More than one thing can be true at the same time.

You can grieve three beautiful children whose lives were taken far too soon.

You can believe their deaths were horrific, heartbreaking, and unjustifiable.

And you can also believe that severe mental illness matters in a criminal trial, especially when the law specifically requires the jury to consider whether mental disease affected criminal responsibility.

Those beliefs do not contradict one another.

And calling women “insane,” “crazy,” "mentally unstable", “baby killer supporters,” and every other derogatory name you can think of, or telling them to off themselves, simply because they understand that distinction doesn't strengthen your argument. It only shows an unwillingness to have an actual conversation about the incredibly complicated intersection of mental illness, psychosis, tragedy, and criminal responsibility.

And frankly, watching women(myself included) be mocked, degraded, and attacked simply for acknowledging the seriousness of mental illness tells us something else:

Women’s mental health still has a LONG way to go.

We tell women to speak up. We tell mothers to ask for help. We tell them mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. But the moment the conversation becomes uncomfortable or complicated, suddenly words like “crazy” and “insane” are thrown around as insults.

That stigma is exactly why conversations about women’s mental health still matters.

But understanding why it exists is not the same as supporting what happened to Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Those children deserved their lives, and acknowledging the reality of severe mental illness does not take one ounce of that truth away from them.

But I also want us to keep having these uncomfortable conversations about MENTAL HEALTH, postpartum mental illness, psychosis, warning signs, access to treatment, and what happens when someone is desperately sick.

Because the goal shouldn't only be figuring out what to do after this horrific tragedy.

The goal should be recognizing the danger, intervening, and getting someone the right help BEFORE another family experiences an unimaginable tragedy.

That is why this conversation matters.

Not to excuse what happened.

Not to erase Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

But to do everything possible to make sure something like this NEVER happens again.

You don't have to agree with the insanity defense. But understanding why it exists is not the same as supporting what happened to these three beautiful children.

Their lives mattered. Mental health matters. Prevention matters.

[Gina @Gina1839]

@burner_joh15211 Thing dumb and thing dumber

[Gina @Gina1839]

@Lillyin_London You’re dumber than I thought 🙄‼️

[Gina @Gina1839]

@ElEmirr__ Heavily medicated dumbass

[Gina @Gina1839]

@Trumpsters45 He looks like a creep that probably has too much interest in kids & teens 😬

[Gina @Gina1839]

@catturd2 You’re definitely a cat turd 🙄‼️

[Gina @Gina1839]

@KYMaverickreal Entertainment for the win 😂

[Gina @Gina1839]

@casualcrafterX

[Gina @Gina1839]

@TrialWatcher22 Sit down of shame, it was great!!

[Gina @Gina1839]

@TheHelenaUknow @GlammaSooz There’s a reason she’s not married or a mother! Disgusting human 🤬

[SAY BYE BYE😊 @DonnaDkent123]

THANK YOU SIR Thank you 💙🩷🙌

[Gina @Gina1839]

@KYMaverickreal @JodeneWeber Any news for you today??

[Gina @Gina1839]

@products840 LOL 😂

[SarJuror13✨ @SarahJuror13]

Hey guys, remember when ADA Jennifer Sprague took an exercise band, looped it around empty AIR in the courtroom, dropped it on the desk like she just had a major “AHA! Gotcha!” moment? 😂 yaaa… I think about that sometimes too, and I just start giggling. 😂 #LindsayClancy

[Gina @Gina1839]

@baileel12

[Gina @Gina1839]

@lizasmicrobangs He looks like Uncle Fester

[Gina @Gina1839]

@LoveLaughChaos He should be studied for what DSM5 diagnosis he falls under 💁‍♀️🙄