I'm not defending her initial actions by any means, but one would assume she didn't take him to the hospital because CPS would have taken the kid away guaranteed. She probably didn't realize how severe his injuries were and just hoped he'd recover.

Violence on children isn't a sign of lack of love for a child. It's a sign of anger management issues and/or a violent upbringing.

In the end, she'll go to jail for some amount of time, which will do nothing positive for her. But the other family members will feel a little better about the situation, or a lot worse if she doesn't get as much punishment as they think she should.

She'll come out of jail much more likely to commit future crime because her life disappeared around her while she was in jail and she'll have to steal because nobody will give her a job and all of her social ties will be burned, and we go from an overly-angry parent to a career criminal.

And of course, Americans pay taxes for this process to occur every day.

I know I sound like I pity her or something, and in a way I do. She killed her son, and the guilt would be more punishment than anything that can be put on her by the legal system. I don't defend her actions, I just dislike the justice system.