I’m not going to pollute my psyche with the sordid details.

I would be leery of blaming religion in general for something like this. There’s no need to blame anyone.

We don’t need to see and hear these posts to know how Religion plays a big part in mental illness....these stories are always heartbreaking but the mother is a victim here too! Sending her to jail would not solve anything here, if she ever recovers her sanity she will have to live with the realisation of what she did and that will be far greater punishment.

There's a reason that religious ideation is so prominent in hallucinations of the mentally ill -- as any mental health professional will attest. Religion is a catalyst for disordered thinking. I wouldn't go so far as to say it causes mental illness, but it definitely pushes vulnerable people over the edge. I don't have a crystal ball to know what percentage of them would be pushed over the edge by something else, absent religion. But I do know that religion is no help, and for people like the one under discussion here, it's like throwing gasoline on a fire.

I do not understand people who act this way and I do not want to understand them. That poor little girl.