Freezer Mom Interview

In 2012, Mitchelle Blair killed her 9 year old son, and later repeated the offense with her 13 year old daughter in 2013. The mother recently plead guilty to first degree murder on both of the cases. Many questions were raised from the headlines. Apparently, Mitchelle’s kids Stoni and Stephen had been molesting her youngest son, which lead her to murder them both, and then pile them in her home deep freezer. Some may think this is an unjust act for any, but especially a mother to her own children. In her first prison interview, Mitchelle explains her motive and blatantly shows her lack of remorse. In fact, she states that she would “kill them again”. Mitchelle explains the gruesome details of her childhood and having to deal with molestation and rape on her own as a child. The resentment she has toward her mom for not appropriately addressing the situation in her childhood may have escalated into her rectifying her “own” circumstance through her children. The question as to if this woman is guilty or not was easy for the jury, considering her case was completed and finalized in under 4 months. I believe however, this is an issue deeper than the court system. I do not blame Mitchelle for her behaviors. In fact, her actions are and were completely justified as far as I’m concerned. Rape is an experience that no one should ever have. I completely sympathize with Mitchelle for her troubled past. Enduring such trauma at any age has everlasting effects, so I can’t begin to imagine how a child would deal with such. I wouldn’t label her actions as insane, yet logical. In religion and government (which always seem to overlap) it is morally impermissible to take someone’s life. This issue becomes a little blurry though, when the victim, has done something wrong to someone else or society. America still enforces death row to guilty inmates however America is also quick to label a woman who feels she is protecting her child as a murderer, yet Casey Anthony roams the streets freely. A theory that immediately came to my mind after hearing this story was consequentialism. Consequentialism is the idea and belief that it is just to do whatever will make for the best consequence in any trying situation. Blair is clearly a consequentialist. I say this because, she believed it was better to purge society of her two children she viewed as evil and no good, to preserve the innocence of her youngest child. I also believe that Mitchelle empathized with her son to a level she could not tolerate. It is a parent’s job to protect their children and Mitchelle did that the best way she knew how. If she was raped at a young age and never got closure, it is very possible that her mental growth was stunted and she couldn’t reason appropriately due to lack of guidance. Under the circumstance, Mitchelle most likely removed herself from her motherly role and transformed back to the young girl she was when she was molested. This is a sad reality for most people who experience rape and never truly have a chance at life. Mitchelle should have been sent to a group home or a shelter for battered women as opposed to the sentence she received. I do not blame Mitchelle for showing a lack of remorse towards her crimes because this may be the closest thing to closure, realness and adulthood that she has felt in all her years of living.

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