Psychologist weighs in on case of Flagstaff baby death

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]How does something like this happen?

[00:00:04]Let's bring in psychologist John Delator. John, what drives a mother to kill her child?

[00:00:14]There are all kinds of different stressors that the person can be experiencing. And what's important to recognize is that those stressors can end up overriding whatever maternal instinct you would think the mother would have towards the child. So having to report uh for probation, having to take blood tests, right? Having limited uh economic resources like limited jobs and stuff like that. All of that builds up over time that it's no longer about how can I care for the child, but it's more about how can I get away from the stressors that the child is bringing on to me so that I could have a moment's rest. Even though that's not really what a parent kind of gets to