This is a woman who should never be let out of prison or mental institution. She needs to not be locked up forever. When is enough enough? I understand mental illness and special needs but at the end of the day she is a danger to society and we have to stop allowing mental illness to be an excuse. The dr literally said she’s narcissistic and doesn’t care about others. I’m sorry but this is the type of person who cannot be rehabilitated.
I agree she should be moved to a proper psych hospital indefinitely at the end of her sentence so at least she’s getting real help. You know them state or gov paid psych places do the bare minimum. I also think her mother should have committed her much earlier cause obviously it wasn’t just a stage that she was gonna grow out of. I would have been scared for my family that was in the home. I know it has to be hard but you have to think about your family as whole and what’s best. That could have been her sister before she moved out at a younger age. I am so sorry for this family 🙏🏻❤️. Zara you are always so empathetic to these cases. I see you struggle to get things out some time. Thank you for all your hard work. And remember to make sure you are getting enough down time so as not to effect your mental health ❤. This is a struggle sometimes to do the research. And there are things you read like autopsies that you protect us from knowing the vile details too. Just thank you so much 🥰
I’ve worked with girls like Jessica in group homes, and I can honestly say that 9 times out of 10, the “preference” to interact solely with males is a manipulation tactic. Unless there’s specific trauma regarding women, which of course happens, they view it as an easier way to get what they want or to have someone dote on them. Usually, it’s because they’ve experienced that they can manipulate men easier than women. And they don’t like other women because, to them, it’s competition for attention. (I’m a professional and I’ve taken classes on childhood development and intellectual disabilities, Im not just saying random stuff.)
This poor mother. Jessica obviously very sick . She seemed very manipulative as well. Parents can do everything to help and things can still end badly. Her wanting to reattach her mother's head I believe was an act.
It's so sad to imagine what that poor mother went through. The pain must've been incredible. The sentence that girl received was a joke. She should've received one year in prison for every stab wound.
I know Jessica has mental and emotional health issues on a massive scale, and that she needed help, but I cannot feel any sympathy for her after ALL the sickening things she’s done to others, especially the one person who loved her, cared for her and brought her into this world! I hope she is locked away for the rest of her life. She’s just shown over and over again that she’s extremely violent and dangerous! I feel so bad for her family! I can’t begin to fathom the amount of pain and trauma they’ve endured!
Hello Zara, this video hit home for me because I have a 31 year old Autistic Son that also has IED, Autism, OCD, and ODD, and he obsesses over certain things of his choice. Such as watching the same movie over and over. He has a behavior episode at least once a year. He used to have like 6 to 10 episodes, so it's getting better. He is on 4 different medications to control his mood. It's like you said that if the attention is not on him, he starts to show signs that an episode is coming on. As a mother, I have to do many things, but I also pay close attention to the signs and try to calm the explosion. I notice that when I have a family gathering and everyone is talking at the same time and he is there, just listening, those are one of the triggers for him. It's like his mind is going a mile a minute. Once he is in the episode, he is totally invested. He tries breaking windows and threatening to hurt himself. He seems to know what he is doing, but in reality, he can not control his actions and behavior. The way I know he is coming out of it is when he apologizes for his behavior and then starts to cry. I pray that I find a solution. I feel said that her mother suffered this horrible death. Pray for the family.
Wow. Such a sad and tragic story. My heart breaks for the family. Due to her levels of unpredictable violence- I believe Jessica should have been in a mental hospital full time - to be properly managed and medicated. 😢
I wonder if the narcissism came from too much pity from the parents and them overcompensating by being over indulgent and letting her get away with everything
I'm a mother of an adult child with IED, and we do not try to overindulge or compensate. It's called quieting the storm. These children are like volcanos. They are ready to erupt and you try anything to avoid the behavior episode before it accuses. I can truly empathize with mothers who have to endure this behavior on a daily basis. This is just food for thought, that's all. God bless.
@@kittieskreations4689she didn't say you she was talking about Jessica's parents and not all people will parent like you. I work in child protection and have had parents tell me they say yes to everything for a quiet life that's when I get the parents additional support.
I love your delivery of these tragic stories. You always tell them with consideration, and compassion in your voice! Thanks for all you do, and continuing to put out content! 🤍
People with those kinda mental health issues HAVE TO STAY ON THEIR MEDS!!! She was off her medication, that’s an issue. As an RN who works in psych and have for many years now, I’ve seen it time and time again where people stabilize and do well until they stop taking their meds. 🤦🏻♀️
As a mental health professional, can I ask you a question? Does some mental health disorders fade? Or calm? Like to the point of being off meds? Or does all mental health progress?
@@Me-pq8ep That’s a very loaded question, so I’ll do my best to answer it. So many different factors can lead to mental illness including genetics, traumatic events in one’s life (this could include physical, mental/emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect, abandonment) alcohol and/or drug abuse, hormones (thyroid being a biggie), etc. Many times it’s a combination of the above factors I listed. As far as whether mental illness progresses or not, it depends upon what may have contributed to it and if those things can be modified by lifestyle changes. Unfortunately, mental health isn’t a one size fits all and it can vary from person to person. But, yes, I have seen some people get on medication and stabilize and do very well. For example, my grandmother is a diagnosed schizophrenic, got stabilized on medication and has done very well for at least 20 years. Now, over those 20 years, she has had to have adjustments made to her medication (dose change, change the specific medication, etc). Last time I remember seeing her “sick” was when I was a little girl. She would say off the wall stuff and had auditory and visual hallucinations. I’m in my late 30’s now and you wouldn’t even suspect if you met her now that she is a diagnosed schizophrenic. Hope that helped answer your question some. God bless! 🙏🏼♥️
I have a friend who's schizophrenic and I have to drag him to get his injection all the while explaining the reason he feels better is because of his injection. It's such a vicious cycle.
Hi! Love your videos ❤ I just wanted to mention a thing; the condition Jessica has, associating numbers and colors, is called synesthesia and not neurasthenia. Synesthesia happens when wires more or less cross in the brain, associating 2 senses that normally don’t have anything in common (like sounds have colors, etc…) and neurasthenia is a deep, seemingly non-ending fatigue and weakness mostly associated with depression for example :3
Hi Zara, just wanted to say i have grown to absolutely love your channel over the past 7 months since ive found it! Ive binged almost all videos now 😅 i hope that your channel grows to the millions of subs it deserves! You're such a gem ❤
Thank you for posting, Zara! Good morning from South Carolina. ❤ - This story is so scary! Why didn’t the Doctor call the Police when she chased her to her car? This young lady should not be released into public.
I found this channel yesterday, and subscribed after the first video I watched. I binged a bit yesterday and am glad I caught this one early. She is very, very good!!!!
Mental health diagnoses can sometimes be very vague and difficult to do. Alot of people get misdiagnosed. Psychiatrists often come up with this diagnose after only spending an hour with the patient - sometimes without collateral history. Autism is one that gets frequently misdiagnosed - alot of people may very well have ASPD (anti social personality disorder) or psychopathy. But we dont often think one is such until they commit murder and are deemed "a monster", and in turn also difficult to diagnose someone with this because of the stigma. However in reality, many with this diagnose could be high functioning and hold professional positions in society such as being a surgeon, police officers, CEOs. Jessica seems to have psychopathy/aspd .
Having severe autism and being allowed to watch horror movies over and over again is a huge let down to her and I see it as abuse. I’m the mother of an autistic girl and they need certain regulations, understanding and safeguarding. No one helped her. No one understood her Tragic story
Good morning Zara,,,, You know how I feel about you I love and adore you 💛. The way you deliver these cases it's phenomenal and you're so real and your personality is everything 🌻🌺🦋🤗🥰🌟😍. Guys please click the like button because Zara is incredibly amazing at her craft and you won't be disappointed 😊. Wow I've never heard of this case and it's truly terrifying. I'm not sure if her mom got her all the help she needed something would have went arwy somewhere else down the road. This,, for me was probably the most terrifying ones I've ever heard of. Thanks Zara for bringing awareness to this case ❤
I watched a video about this case a few years ago and i remember thinking that this is the worst true crime case I've ever heard of. I've watched them all too. It's just horrific all around
She’s so self entitled, it’s not even funny. I mean three plates of food, and gets mad when she is denied more food? This girl needs to be in isolation probably forever. Or in a cage 🤷🏽♀️ whichever is more fitting
I’m only 11 minutes in but if Rita had actually given Jessica’s violent actions appropriate consequences when she was younger I feel like Jessica would have been much better off and more well-adjusted. (Edit:) This is obviously only in conjunction with proper, adequate mental health care. Letting a kid get away with literally whatever they want is NEVER a good idea and never leads to well adjusted adults or even adults who are fun/nice to be around. And not getting someone (*especially* a child) the mental healthcare they need, especially when they need it so desperately, things very often become disastrous- for the individual, but sometimes also for those around them. I’m not blaming the mother, and she really did do what she thought was best. It’s awful that she tried to accommodate everything she could for Jessica and Jessica “repaid” her by doing all that she did.
I feel like maybe there is some confusion surrounding autism…not understanding peoples emotions naturally sure but that does NOT mean they don’t have empathy. Those are two very different mental pathways, I highly recommend looking into it more! 🥰
i love zara. but it did kind of hurt, as an autistic person, to hear someone like me to be described as “not normal” :’) thank you for pointing it out. there’s always room for improvement 💕 edit: typo
@@kittieskreations4689 i know that clearly wasn’t the intention lol. but it’s still proper to educate people. especially when you care about them and their success - we want zara to hear us out and do better for her fans and her channel. like i said, there’s always room for improvement 💕
You are great! I’m so glad I came across your videos ❤️ I have listened to Bailey Sarian and Danielle Kristy everyday on the work, at home doing chores, and now I have another great crime podcast to add to my roster. Also, you are clearly a very intelligent and busy woman! Keep doing what you are doing. ❤️
Hey beautiful, how are you ? I'm always looking forward to your videos ❤ This case is so upsetting. As a mother myself, I feel like obviously children need their parents to be loving, attentive, devoted, caring and patient. But also, kids *need* boundaries. That's how they learn to cope with the world, society, others, peers, friends, family... Kid's behaviors can be like a bouncing ball, if you throw it and it hits a wall, it will bounce back to you. If you throw it and it faces no obstacles on it's course, it'll keep on bouncing and eventually, you'll loose the ball. That's the metaphor I have in my mind, at least 😅 As much as I love my girls, I know they need to hear "no", "you can't do that" or "stop", contextualize and explain to them why that is. As hard as it can be, I believe preparing them the best I can to face the world is true love, and a parent's ultimate goal. Anyways, Rita did not deserve this. I don't understand how she only got 16 years. I don't believe she can be rehabilitated, she'll be a massive danger to society ! Take care Zara !
Just why didn’t the school do anything to protect Jessica from bullying?? I’ve worked in schools with children who have different needs and this would never be tolerated! School isn’t just about lessons, there’s caring, kindness and respect for each other, most children in my experience, would want to feel grownup and support another child. I loved working with children who had autism, they are a blessing.
I dont think more care wouldve helped her at all, it seems like her getting catered to/getting her way all the time just filled her narcissism, arrogance and her bad behavior. I think shes just an evil person not because of her disabilities, I think with or without them shes truly just a bad person
Oh my word I wish I would’ve put her in a mental institution for a long long time before all this happened. Prayers go out to her family and this little boy.❤
I heard of this Horrendous and sad case before...I enjoyed your re--telling of this crime. Gorgeous Make-up Zara... I also just SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANNEL....THANK YOU ZARA. 🎉PAMELA 🎉
What was the judge thinking by reducing her sentence. I saw the little one last year and my heart ached. If she's kept t inside longer it gives the small one a chance to finish studies and probably move to another state. Keep her in so that the family need not look over their shoulder all the time
Man emergency calls are tough to listen too... I can still hear myself when I had to make one.. But here you are listening to it all for us 😭 We love you Zara ❤ IED is rough... ☹ Sometimes I watch these videos and alot of my "diagnoses" line up with these pols and I'm just glad that I was, for the majority, able to control myself and my brain more than others. It's a hard life and takes a lot of self work. You just were talking about the school arguments and said she normally targeted girls; I wonder if I targeted boys bc I would watch my mom and her bf get in knock down drag out fights, that were started on both their ends. Like maybe deep down inside btwn that and my dad abandoning me that's why I fought boys more 🤷♀️ things that make ya go hmmm
I was never diagnosed with IED, but when I was growing up I would get into states where I would be very aggressive and I would be trying to cause my mum pain. I felt like I was possessed and it was like I had all this energy going through my arms. I would also be shouting etc. Thankfully my mum knew how to keep herself safe from aggressive kids and how to safely restrain me through her childcare training. I would fight the restraints she held me in, but I was never able to get free. When I calmed down she would release me. She sometimes played music, but that temporarily made me worse, because the music was calming me down and I wanted to stay mad, so I would get more aggressive to fight the calming effect of the music. She would also grey rock me if I was hitting her or otherwise hurting her, so I couldn't get the satisfaction of a reaction if she couldn't get me in a restraint. In later years we worked on trying to release the aggression I was feeling through a more appropriate means. We actually tried actually doing a proper fight, which wasn't great because my mum would get angry and would hurt me, so we dropped that idea quite quickly. Then my mum would hold up a cushion, which I would punch, which worked quite well. Later we moved to boxing gloves and training pads. I absolutely hated that side of myself and for many years I was scared of becoming a domestic abuser if I got married. Looking back I can see I was already perpetuating domestic abuse, which is a hard thing to acknowledge, because you think of people like that as irredeemable monsters, and that's obviously not how you want to think of yourself. I managed to curb it almost through will power. I got really upset about my tendency to act up like that one evening and after that, I just got a better grip on controlling myself. I don't know how I did that though.
I love your videos, but I am autistic and was raised by an abusive autism mum, and a lot of autistic kids have 'autism mums' who make their kids diagnoses about themselves, and even attempt to murder their children and give them trauma, so a lot of us dont wanna heard about how 'hard' it is to raise a 'special needs (we also dont like that term) child',
There are many different disabilities and it actually can be very hard on the parents to care for a special needs child. To administer medications day and night, change the diapers, clean the feeding tube, drive cross country for doctor’s appointments etc.
I’ve been watching for a little while (maybe twoish months) I just noticed I have not been subscribed to you!! I am so sorry. Well I am officially here and subscribed now! Here to support you girly. Appreciate all your work that goes into these videos. 💜💜💜
I feel its nothing to do with the fact that she's autistic. I have autism and watched horror films for years and its never made me like her. Regulating watching horror films is a really good idea though. It's more to do with her mental health issues that made her unstable. She was wrong to do what she did but she needed support with her anger issues that way it may have prevented the terrible things she ended up doing.
18:19 You called her Jennifer (not ragging on you, it's an honest mistake) but I kind of perked up like who is this new person entering the chat?? Haha lol ❤ Besitos
Jessica was not mental ill or had anything wrong With her People need stop making excuses for her. Jessica is just plain Evil Don't feel sorry for Jessica Jessica family I feel sorry for You just need to see her face I am glad Jessica sister will never see her again May God support Rita family
I can understand being a mother and wanting to take care of their child with special needs and different issues, but I'm sorry, but even as caring as I am and as much as I go out away for people, I would have not put up with that crap, especially for so many years, and even to the extent that I allowed that God awful kid to ruin my marriage, ruin my life, and eventually take my life. I'm glad her mother finally realized that she needed to do something different and start living her life but unfortunately it was just too late. And then she let her daughter know which probably angered her even more and she ended up basically enabling her daughter, coddling her, and creating that monster that eventually killed her. No wonder Jessica was a narcissistic monster, because her mother created that narcissistic monster.
With all due respect, because your channel is awesome, but Jessica didn'tLOSE her mother. She killed her. It was a choice she made. I realize she has all these mental problems, but she still knows right from wrong, or she wouldn't bother to apologize to anyone, ever. If the prison is anything like the ones in the US, she's probably not getting a lot of mental help and counseling, and is in that wing because it has heightened security for the women with mental illnesses. Not because I think things should be easier on her, but if they ever plan on letting her out, she needs to be in a hospital. Getting real help. I don't know if they have what is basically prison hospitals there, but she definitely needs more help than shes going to get in prison. Shes going to learn to control her temper better the older she gets and will probably learn to hide her true feelings from others and if so, will be a bigger monster when she gets out than she is now. This story was wild, and you did a great job covering it!
No she can’t be rehabilitated shes too far gone I have worked with many individuals with intellectual disabilities and sadly majority of them are stuck in their ways and most of them had parents and family members that didn’t discipline them because they are scared of them or because of them having a disability they felt they couldn’t discipline them so a lot of the learn at an early age there is no repercussions for their bad behaviors and they feed off of that so when they come to facilities we get the bad end of things and only thing we can do is give them structure and routine to minimize bad behaviors
Psych here ( well about to be Soon ) I don’t wanna be nit-picky but IQ assessments such as the wais are one of the most statistically reliable tools we use in psychological assessment iQ tests are essential in a number of assessments - we use them to both rule out and conform a diagnose I understand your well meaning but saying things like ‘ these tests are not reliable ‘ not only contradicts all the available research it’s also spreading misinformation and stigma on a tool that clinicians need to use for a wide range of assessments . Its sort of like me ( who is not a medical doctor) saying ‘ I don’t know about x rays I think there fake because there is no such thing as a Normal chest x ray ‘
