From Cradle to Grave: Why Did a Mother's Nine Babies Have to Die? - Hardcover

Egginton, Joyce

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9780491038249: From Cradle to Grave: Why Did a Mother's Nine Babies Have to Die?

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ISBN 10: 0491038240 ISBN 13: 9780491038249

Publisher: Virgin Books, 1989

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The short lives and strange deaths of Marybeth Tinning"s nine children. "Year after year, one af ter another, the babies of Marybeth Tinning died, nine of them over the past fourteen years. The causes were listed variously as natural or undetermined or Sudden Infant Death somehow no one - not the police, nor the coroners, doctors, social workers, or neighbours, not even Mrs. Tinning"s husband - detected something evil in the strange patterns of death"

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From 1972 to 1985, all the children of the Tinnings, a Schenectady, N.Y. couple, died in infancy. At first, friends and physicians assumed they were victims of "crib death" or an inexplicable genetic flaw. As the deaths continued, suspicion mounted against the mother, who was always alone when her babies were stricken. Without hard evidence, officialdom was agonizingly slow to act, but finally, following a police interrogation, Marybeth made a confession (later retracted) to smothering three children. Investigative reporter Egginton has written a moving, sympathetic account of human tragedy, including insights into what triggers infanticide, a phenomenon which the author suggests is more prevalent than commonly believed. Recommended.
- Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Marybeth Tinning of Schenectady, N.Y., bore eight children and adopted a ninth; all died in infancy. Imprisoned for the murder of the ninth baby, Tinning had probably killed all the children and suffered from postpartum psychosis, according to Egginton's hypothesis detailed in what PW termed "a sensitive, thought-provoking study." Photos.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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