Mother arrested for killing 2-yr-old daughter by dropping her from balcony

WHAT????!!! How can she do that? If you can't raise your child then give her up for adoption not kill her!

Speechless! What a monster!

I can not fathom the motivation that any mother or parent would have for killing their child, let alone in this manner.

It's hard to find any silver lining in this cloud, other than the child is hopefully in a better place away from her!

This makes me sick. Poor child.

The moderator will surely remove what I want to say about the mother. However, I'm sure the poor little girl has gone to a better place away from that monster who gave birth to her.

According to TV news yesterday she has another child, a son, who was present at the time of incident, as was the father.

I can't imagine the horror felt by the father and the brother. I hope they recover.

It seems mental illness could be a factor here....

I would take.the child, have a spare room and time.

it seems mental illness could be a factor here....

And this comment gets down voted? So those people who down voted don't think mental illness was a factor? Unbelievable. No rational sane person does this, we might think about it but we stop at such actions ( at least I do). Road rage is another symptom of mental or emotional illness. I have never crashed into another driver but the idea is sometimes appealing. RIP young lass, Japanese news I read says she was an only child.

Lock her up for life, NOW! Don't let her near her other child.

simon g: "I have never crashed into another driver but the idea is sometimes appealing."

And THAT is why mental illness is not to blame, but the person. If you can control your feelings, so can others. Thanks for the example in your own argument. Lots of people suffer from mental illness -- they don't murder their kids for it.

This is murder full stop, so, off to prison she goes.

simon g: "I have never crashed into another driver but the idea is sometimes appealing."

And THAT is why mental illness is not to blame, but the person. If you can control your feelings, so can others. Thanks for the example in your own argument. Lots of people suffer from mental illness -- they don't murder their kids for it.

simon g can control his feelings because he's not mentally ill.

I can't believe in this day and age that people are still so unsympathetic towards those who suffer from mental illness. Would you even think of saying to a cancer sufferer, 'If you just controlled yourself a bit better you wouldn't have cancer"? Mental illness is a disease just like cancer or hepatitis.

What a rotten piece of human filth.

Japan needs to wake up to these obvious problems and make an example of one of them. Life in prison or better still the death penalty. They know they can get away with their selfish murder of their own children.

Put her to death

I sincerely hope she hangs for this.

Put her to death

I sincerely hope she hangs for this.

And you wouldn't have saved the young girls life. Look at countries with capital punishment, they have higher than average murder rates. Compare the US with Australia for a case study.

And THAT is why mental illness is not to blame, but the person. If you can control your feelings, so can others.

But that presumes that mental illness doesn't affect people's self control, which is kind of a symptom of mental illness. People suffer mental and emotional illness in different manners. Just cause I can control my anger that doesn't mean everyone can, and I have spent thousands on counseling and medications. Not everyone can afford that kind of care.

Correction (typo) to my above comment :

The most emotionless people on earth.

Put her to death

This will achieve nothing. Like the countless other times calling for women to be executed. Nothing.

Instead, it's time to focus on what drives someone to do this? What pressures from society/domestic situation cause someone to suffer a loss of rationality and cave into such terrible and tragic desperation?

That was the very sadness news for every parents.

Monster !!!

Wow people in here quick to judge...oh well thats hiw humans behave .. I guess ...life is sad ....