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The motive behind Jovanovic's actions was reportedly her fear that motherhood would jeopardise her professional career as a lawyer for a prestigious car brand.

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[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's fair. Pure unfounded speculation: I wonder if there was an element of post partum psychosis.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 years ago

My guess: didn't know she was pregnant until very late. Options were dwindling or nil. She was completely and insanely career obsessed and career-anxious.

Arrives the last month or two. Pregnancy is hard to ignore then, but it was probably daily terror and panic as she didn't know what to do. She probably felt cornered, insane with anxiety and barely holding it together in a field that doesn't give you any room for error.

By the time she has to deliver, her brain is likely already pure soup from the anxiety, obsessing with how she can't handle it, how it can't be happening, how she can't be a mother, doesn't want to be a mother, can't - not doesn't want to, but can't! CAN'T you understand?! - stop to work.

So she delivers secretly. By this point she's too far gone, mentally a complete mess, insane, unstable.

So she kills her newborn.

Not as a heinous premeditated act of hatred, violence and mischief, but as a completely insane act of post partum depression, psychosis, work related anxiety and sheer craziness.

She didn't choke or shake the baby then dug a grave at night - she didn't do some elaborate crime and elaborate body-hiding shenanigans.

She threw. The. Baby. Out. Her. Own. Window.

And she's a lawyer.

There was no attempt whatsoever to not get caught or to act surreptitiously.

Just pure terror, psychosis and a horrible, tragic impulse that ended up terminating a new life and ruining another.

Sorry i got carried away lyrically lol.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago

Yeah the title doesn't mention that she gave birth in secret and threw the baby out her window 10 minutes later...

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah this is a pretty important detail I think.

[-] kshade@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

German-language media says that she claims to not have known that she was pregnant, her Internet search history showed she likely did. Defense said that she was traumatized and had suppressed that she knew. Psychiatric evaluation says she was fully accountable. It's kinda obvious that there was something very wrong going on, though.

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/heilbronn/mordprozess-landgericht-junge-frau-lauffen-saeugling-aus-fenster-geworfen-100.html

[-] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Gee do you think?

[-] coolteathatisgreen@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

" Hoech claimed Jovanovic was unaware of her pregnancy and overwhelmed by the sudden birth."
How can one unaware of her pregnancy until give birth ?

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