Butterbox Babies:
Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later
By Bette L. Cahill, paperback, 223 pages, Independent Publishers Group, 1 edition (Sept. 10 2006)
ISBN-10: 1552662136
ISBN-13: 978-1552662137
Many of the babies born at the Ideal Maternity Home in East
Chester, Nova Scotia, were not adopted. Instead
they mysteriously disappeared, becoming known as butterbox
babies-named after the grocery delivery boxes that they were
buried in. Since Bette Cahill first wrote about this shocking
truth in 1992, she continued to research the story and
corresponded with many of the home's survivors. In this expanded
edition, she shares her ongoing examination, revealing the
sometimes happy, often heartbreaking endings of survivors
searching for their birth parents.
ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - A New Brunswick judge says a woman who burned and
dismembered her newborn son is criminally responsible for her actions.
Becky Sue Morrow earlier pleaded guilty to offering an indignity to a
dead body and disposing of a newborn with the intent of concealing a delivery.
Judge David Walker ruled Friday that the 27-year-old woman may have been
suffering from a mental disorder when she delivered the baby but that that
was not the case when the baby's body was burned and its remains hidden.
It is not known if the baby was alive at the time of birth.
At a hearing last month, the court heard contrasting reports from the
two psychiatrists. One said Ms. Morrow was in a "disassociated" mental state
when the crime occurred. The other said she clearly planned her actions
and understood the consequences.
The 10-year-old Katy boy accused of murdering his father this summer
is now the face of an unofficial psychiatric disorder that may have lead
to his father's death.
Some psychiatrists call it Parental Alienation Syndrome and they say
that's why the son killed Doctor Rick Lohstroh last summer. The syndrome
is basically caused by a bitter parent who poisons a child against the other
parent, usually in cases of divorce.
The Story of the Killing of Innocent Canadian Children
Since the 1992 publication of Butterbox Babies, the Ideal Maternity Home
in Chester, Nova Scotia, has become synonymous with illegal adoptions and
suspicious baby deaths. Much attention has been given to the neglect of
infants at the Home, the exorbitant fees paid by adoptive parents, and the
secretive nature of the transactions.
But what became of the children who were adopted? What effect did their
shaky beginnings have on their later lives? Were they loved and cherished,
or mistreated and ignored? Did they feel like "family"? Did they
always wonder who they were? In this comprehensive book, author and Survivor
Robert Hartlen has compiled the personal stories of thirty six of the adult
adoptees who survived the Ideal Maternity Home.
More and More teens are becoming depressed. The numbers of young people
suffering from depression in the last 10 years has risen worryingly, an
expert says.
BBC, UK, August 3, 2004
Government statistics suggest one in eight adolescents now has depression.
Unless doctors recognise the problem, Read More ..uld slip through the net,
says Professor Tim Kendall of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental
Health.
Guidelines on treating childhood depression will be published next year.
Professor Kendall says a lot Read More ..eds to be done to treat the illness.
Days after buying another woman Valentine's Day flowers, a Sydney father came home to find a trail of blood leading him to the bodies of his two young children lying next to their mother, a court has been told.
Australian Associated Press
Aug 24 2009
The woman had given the couple's three-year-old daughter and
four-year-old son rat poison and an unidentified pink liquid before
smothering them and killing them, court papers said.
She then tried to take her own life, the NSW Supreme Court was told.
Doctors agree the mother, from Canley Heights in Sydney's west, was
suffering from "major depression" when she poisoned her children on
February 19 last year.
She has pleaded not guilty to the two murders by reason of mental
illness.
As her judge-alone trial began, the mother's lawyer told Justice
Clifton Hoeben his client didn't think life was worth living after
learning about her husband's affair.
Butterbox Babies:
Baby Sales, Baby Deaths-New Revelations 15 Years Later
