Religious Fanatic Kills Her Own Baby

England: A mentally ill woman who killed her six-week-old daughter by sitting on her has been detained indefinitely. Julia Lovemore, of The Rowans, Milton, near Cambridge, earlier admitted the manslaughter of her baby on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

The judge at Cambridge Crown Court said the 41-year-old was "profoundly mentally disordered and suffering from religious delusions at the time".

She and her husband were described a "religious fanatics" in court.

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Julia Lovemore was visited by a community psychiatric nurse and a health visitor on the day of the killing. When they arrived, they found her husband David Lovemore, 39, downstairs praying for his wife, and their older child was sitting on the stairs. The nurse, told police Mr Lovemore was stamping his feet and saying: "Take the devil out of Julia."