S01 Episode 3: The Sentence
Update: 2023-07-13
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At the nurse’s sentencing hearing, the patients learn a shocking detail that forces them to confront the limits of their compassion.
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I'm surprised that they were so concerned to give custody to her ex husband, but yet she's addicted to fentanyl... Isn't that enough to lose custody??
I'm surprised that they were so concerned to give custody to her ex husband, but yet she's addicted to fentanyl... Isn't that enough to lose custody??
crazy what someone can get away with just because they gave birth and call themselves a "Mom". it's disgusting.
I don't have or want kids but even i have strong feelings on this. I feel like the judge and even this podcast were too lenient on Donna. While I don't think all drug addicts should be incarnated, in this case Donna intentionally inflicted pain on potentially hundreds of women for her own selfishness. She ruined some women's chance to have children, so her own role as a mother should have had no influence on her sentence. Also shame on Yale for their pathetic attempt to minimize the pain and shirk responsibility when it was discovered. Having a baby in the US already seems dangerous enough. You have an ectopic pregnancy and idiots in your government will tell you it can be reimplanted.
As a chronic pain patient with neurological and autoimmune conditions, I can tell you that pain in this country is seen as "not my problem." NOBODY cares. They used to. But then doctors handed out pain medications like candy. Now, your pain is seen as a "you problem." It is seen as something you just have to get over. "You're not dead, are you? You're still breathing, still standing here, still sitting here, still alive. Get over it." Those women experienced pain. The justice system told them to "get over it." Addicts still win.
1.The judge's job is to make a decision. She's going to sit there and whine that she can't decide, that it's too hard? She should resign. Or lose the next election. 2. That woman experienced the pain of infertility and the experience of having a needle inserted through her most intimate parts WITH anesthesia and then stood next to women being pierced, untreated for pain because she stole their relief medications. And did it repeatedly.. 4 weekends is a joke. 3. Being white IS a privilege in the US criminal al justice system.
This was infuriating to hear! That horrible woman caused great physical and psychological harm to many women, and she was treated with kid gloves and given basically no punishment at all! The judge seems completely incompetent.
my mouth literally fell open when I heard the sentence. I was expecting 4 years and disagreement if it should have been the full 5. But 4 alternating weekends? released on Sunday afternoon in time to pick up her kids? It's truly a WTF moment. What a complete asshole of a judge.