Woman survives jump off overpass with child in arms

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Global Montreal | Woman survives jump off overpass with child in arms
MONTREAL - A woman in her 30s could face charges after she jumped from the Fenelon Blvd overpass on Highway 20 in Dorval Thursday evening with her 3-year-old daughter in her arms.

Both survived the fall. The toddler was unharmed. The woman suffered two broken legs and a broken pelvis, police said.

According to police, the woman parked her car on the overpass at about 8:30 p.m. Aug. 30. She took her daughter out of the vehicle and carried her to the guardrail. She then jumped from the structure on to the highway below. She was not struck by passing traffic.

Police closed sections of Highway 20 for several hours.
From what i've heard today,apparently there is a double standard,when a father does something like this,everyone get upset at the guy "apparently" but when its the mother,some are expert in psychology,and think there is a valid reason why the mother try to bring her kids with her.
 

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On an open line where people can comment on any of the subject of the day,it seems all women caller,were finding an excuse for her.

I don't understand the kind of people that make excuses for behaviour like that. You harm or attempt to harm a child, you're pretty low in my book.
 

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I don't understand the kind of people that make excuses for behaviour like that. You harm or attempt to harm a child, you're pretty low in my book.

Yeah when Dr Guy Turcotte killed his kids,in an act of revenge against his ex wife,only a few loony psychology expert were defending him,all women were crucifying the a-hole,as all guys,but again somehow its not the same when mommy kill her kids.

Whats wrong with the picture.
 

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Anyone, and I mean anyone, that attempts (or succeeds :( ) to kill their child(ren) in an attempt to either get back at the other parent or take them with them when they attempt suicide, are poor excuses for humans. Thankfully, in this case, the child survived relatively unharmed(there could be some psychological scars in the child's future). Rarely do you hear about good news in cases like this.
 

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On an open line where people can comment on any of the subject of the day,it seems all women caller,were finding an excuse for her.
Anyone who defends this mother's attempt at murder/suicide should have their head examined.
 

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I don't know who these people are because I sure as hell do not excuse a mother behaving in that way.

Two broken legs, a broken pelvis, terrible injuries to be sure, but when you're jumping from only about twenty feet up, suicide is not
a sure thing. The kid wasn't injured and that is one of the good things about this story.
 

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Yeah when Dr Guy Turcotte killed his kids,in an act of revenge against his ex wife,only a few loony psychology expert were defending him,all women were crucifying the a-hole,as all guys,but again somehow its not the same when mommy kill her kids.

Whats wrong with the picture.

The same wrong thing that exists when a man screws with a kid and is pretty well fk'd for the rest of their life... But when a woman does the same thing, it's not so bad and jokes get tossed around, along with comments that the male victims got lucky / early sex education.

And if the woman offender is remotely attractive.... They almost become a celebrity.

There's an imbalance between the perspectives towards each gender, with two sets of rules in most cases (with the rare case in between to make an example to hush the minority outcry)

Women get post partum depression after having a baby and how it changes their entire life's structure, mentally, physically, their relationship and sex lives.... And some women can be slapped on the wrist for putting their baby in the microwave for 120 minutes.

But men / fathers don't get depression the same way.... Men can cope and handle this drastic change in their lives better than women apparently and because they didn't carry the baby for months on end and didn't pop it out from between their legs like the woman did even though they were right there the whole time, had to hear about it every second of every day, had to help anyway they could by getting things & doing things all hours of the day and night, just to get bitched at for their efforts......

.... When the man snaps for whatever reason and tosses their kid into a wood chipper, there's no excuse... There's no mental disorder like what new mothers can go through.... They're just a violent monster who couldn't cope or just didn't want to grow up.