German exec jailed 7.5 years for manslaughter after dropping newborn from the window, claiming stress at work led to the accident.

The motive behind Jovanovic’s actions was reportedly her fear that motherhood would jeopardise her professional career as a lawyer for a prestigious car brand.

  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    822·
    4 months ago

    Sounds pretty awful, but remember that prosecutors don’t have ESP. So “prosecutors claim she didn’t want to jeopardize her career” is not the same as “she didn’t want to jeopardize her career”.

    It’s not like she wrote in her diary “Today I killed my newborn because I thought it would interfere with work.”

    • Dud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      722·
      4 months ago

      Yea I don’t think many are as focused on the motivation part as much as the lady defenestrating a fuckin baby.

      • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        351·
        4 months ago

        That’s fair. Pure unfounded speculation: I wonder if there was an element of post partum psychosis.

        • Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
          316·
          4 months ago

          My guess: didn’t know she was pregnant until very late. Options were dwindling or nil. She was completely and insanely career obsessed and career-anxious.

          Arrives the last month or two. Pregnancy is hard to ignore then, but it was probably daily terror and panic as she didn’t know what to do. She probably felt cornered, insane with anxiety and barely holding it together in a field that doesn’t give you any room for error.

          By the time she has to deliver, her brain is likely already pure soup from the anxiety, obsessing with how she can’t handle it, how it can’t be happening, how she can’t be a mother, doesn’t want to be a mother, can’t - not doesn’t want to, but can’t! CAN’T you understand?! - stop to work.

          So she delivers secretly. By this point she’s too far gone, mentally a complete mess, insane, unstable.

          So she kills her newborn.

          Not as a heinous premeditated act of hatred, violence and mischief, but as a completely insane act of post partum depression, psychosis, work related anxiety and sheer craziness.

          She didn’t choke or shake the baby then dug a grave at night - she didn’t do some elaborate crime and elaborate body-hiding shenanigans.

          She threw. The. Baby. Out. Her. Own. Window.

          And she’s a lawyer.

          There was no attempt whatsoever to not get caught or to act surreptitiously.

          Just pure terror, psychosis and a horrible, tragic impulse that ended up terminating a new life and ruining another.

          Sorry i got carried away lyrically lol.

        • coolteathatisgreen@lemm.eeEnglish
          54·
          4 months ago

          " Hoech claimed Jovanovic was unaware of her pregnancy and overwhelmed by the sudden birth."
          How can one unaware of her pregnancy until give birth ?

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
            414·
            4 months ago

            You think you would notice missing 9 periods, having your entire nipple area change color and produce milk, need to go pee every thirty minutes, feet swelling, rapid temperature changes, focus problems, food cravings, vomiting for three months, odor sensitivities, not being able to tie your shoes, weird fast reflexes, urge to take on home repair projects, and skin changes.

            But I am positive someone here will tell me about their friend’s cousin former yoga instructor’s roommate who didn’t notice for some reason and act like this is the norm

              • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                4 months ago

                No joke I have a friend of mine who just went to sleep one night and woke up with a baby covered in blood crying on her bed, umbilical chord still attached… Glad she doesn’t roll over in her sleep