Events in the news this week.
Sheryl Lynn Massip is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for the murder of her 6-week-old son, Michael. Massip argued in court that she was driven to kill her son by postpartum psychosis, a malady that is believed to cause severe mood swings, irritability, depression and, in some extreme cases, hallucinations and violence. The 24-year-old Anaheim woman, who ran over her infant with the family car, was convicted of second-degree murder and could be sentenced to 16 years to life in state prison.
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