Professor Chris Goddard, director of the National Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse, said, As harsh as it may seem, abandoning ... Qian Xun Xue ... may have saved her from further trauma and possibly saved her life.
Well, yes.
Her father's actions reflect a man who was desperate, possibly depressed.
Well, yes, desperate to get away ... desperate to avoid raising the alarm before effecting his escape, desperate to avoid the consequences of his actions.
For her, it's terrible circumstances ... depression was an illness that clouded people's judgment and decision-making.
Oh, yes ... so he wasn' responsible for his actions? Mmmm.
If you are depressed, severely depressed, you can certainly see things in a jaded way ... A depressed person may have a different version of the world and themselves. People may see themselves as a burden on the world and that it would be a better life if they weren't in it.
Oh yes ... but didn't this chappy allegedly repeatedly beat his wife and then kill her and then hide her? So really, she was the burden?
... depressed people could do things they later regretted because they were not thinking clearly.
Mmmm, not responsible, diminished capacity?
... her father had "deep down, feared for the girl's well-being".
Mmmm ... not for his own well-being? Did he not take her to provide that delay in raising the alarm, providing that 'window of opportunity' that enabled his escape and as soon as this was achieved she was an encumbrance, an impediment to effecting a 'clean get away' and maintaining anonymity?
Perhaps, simply very very calculated?
Friday, September 21, 2007
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We all have reasons for our actions. It's not going to bring back the girls mother. It's all going to be rather depressing to hold him accountable for his actions. We'll just have to deal with it I guess.
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