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Villanova professor charged with killing her baby
« on: Aug 6^th, 2003, 1:12pm »

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Tuesday, August 5, 2003 Posted: 8:42 PM EDT (0042 GMT)

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A Villanova University history professor accused of fatally slitting her 6-month-old daughter's throat was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder.

The girl, Raya Donagi, was found bleeding and unconscious Monday after her grandmother called 911 about 9 a.m.

Police said the girl's mother, Mine An Ener, gave the infant her morning feeding and then carried her to the bathroom, pausing in the kitchen to get a knife. Police said she told them she laid the baby on her back and then leaned over, pressing the 12-inch knife's blade twice across Raya's throat.

"I killed my baby with a knife," authorities said Ener, 38, told medics when they arrived.

Police said Ener sat with her hands crossed in front of her chest, her mother holding her from behind as the medics tried to revive the child, who was pronounced dead at the grandmother's St. Paul home.

Ener, a professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, had recently returned to Minnesota with her daughter to be with family as she struggled with depression, police and relatives said.

Ener, 38, told police she suffered from postpartum depression and was on medication. The child was born with Down syndrome and at one point needed to be fed through a tube. She told police she wanted to give the baby relief.

"She felt the baby was suffering," said police Sgt. Bruce Wynkoop.

Ener also told police she had thought about killing herself for several weeks.

A preliminary autopsy showed the baby bled to death from two neck wounds.

Nobody answered the door Tuesday at the family's St. Paul home.

Ener, who grew up in St. Paul, graduated from St. Paul Central High School and went on to St. Paul's Macalester College. She earned her doctorate from the University of Michigan and took a job at Villanova in 1996. She worked in the university's Center for Arab and Islamic Studies.

"She's had a very good and strong record here," said John Johannes, vice president of academic affairs at Villanova. "She's being published and she's a good scholar. She is very accomplished."

Michael Bonner, who met Ener in the 1980s when she was attending graduate school at the University of Michigan, where he currently teaches, said the allegations were "not remotely in her character."

"I always thought she was a highly motivated but balanced person," said Bonner, who edited a book with Ener.

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« Reply #1 on: Aug 6^th, 2003, 5:12pm »

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OMG OMG OMG..that is so awful... Cry

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« Reply #2 on: Aug 6^th, 2003, 5:30pm »

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There's that damnedable depression again. This woman was able to hide her true feelings (typical behaviour of many depressives).

"Ener, 38, told police she suffered from postpartum depression and was on medication. The child was born with Down syndrome and at one point needed to be fed through a tube. She told police she wanted to give the baby relief.

"She felt the baby was suffering," said police Sgt. Bruce Wynkoop."

What a sad waste of humankind, both the baby and the mother. The baby must have suffered horribly. I think it takes awhile to bleed out like that.

Lord, bless the child and please bring mental health back to the mother. What a horrible thing to happen.

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« Reply #3 on: Aug 6^th, 2003, 9:51pm »

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Put her in the cell with Susan Smith and then throw away the key.

I have NO sympathy for ANYONE who would take a child's life, especially a parent.

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« Reply #4 on: Aug 6^th, 2003, 10:31pm »

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that was a sad event.. i felt very sad for the kid.. for everybody even the handicapped deserved to live...

i have shared feelings for the mother, hatred for her act and sorrow for her state and the conscience attack that is now experiencing... its a waste for someone like that to perform such act specially from a respectable person in their community...

I agree with bumper that this lady be thrown to a cell... so she can reflect on the act that she has done... Grin

she should have just left her in a convent instead of killing her child...

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« Reply #5 on: Aug 7^th, 2003, 5:35pm »

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Sorry - the following is lonnnnnnng)

Bumper: "Put her in the cell with Susan Smith and then throw away the key.

I have NO sympathy for ANYONE who would take a child's life, especially a parent. "

Bumps - in the 2+ years I've known you - this has to be nearly the first time I'll disagree with you.

This woman was obviously ill, as is SS and several other mothers who have recently murdered their children. Being in a state of depression is unique, because most people don't (generally) see the pain, hurt, anger, confusion and exhaustion of hope of the person who is depressed. You may think I'm making an "excuse" for these folk - but truly, I'm not.

During the severest period of my recent bout with depression - I wanted to kill Wings - he wouldn't shut up. Two years ago, I became so violently angry at my computer, I tried to bash it and my poor mouse still looks pretty pathetic.

A little less than three years ago, I came too close to wanting to kill my mother, and actually doing it. I sat in my vehicle after leaving the "house on the hill" in the middle of the street. It was lightning and thundering and I was on fire with anger. I prayed and prayed, screaming and crying for someone or something to help me. I didn't know whether to go to the police dept or ER.

Then, somehow I found myself unlocking the backdoor of my little home. I ran to the phone to call my friend Vicki in Muskogee. She's one cool lady. She told me I was okay - I had made it home. She asked me whether - or not - I felt I might want to leave the house and go back up there. I told her hell no. She asked why - was it because of the awful weather? I told her no - it was because I wanted to live - I didn't want to go to prison. We laughed then; then we cried and laughed some more. She arrived the next afternoon and stayed the weekend.

Saturday afternoon, Daddy drove up in his golfcart to say hello. Then he asked me what was going on last night. The next door neighbor told him I was stopped in the middle of the road and pulled alongside me to ask if I was having car trouble. He told Daddy he honked his horn several times because I was just sitting there crying. He said that it took nearly 10 minutes to get my attention. I HAD NO RECOLLECTION OF THAT, AND TO THIS DAY I DON'T REMEMBER IT.

Vicki and I sat there listening to Daddy - all the while becoming more stunned and shocky. She and I then realized how close I had come to committing the despicable act of murder - upon my own mother.

Could it be.....that "blank" period of time, is what the Susan Smith's of the world have also experienced - which "allowed" them to carry out physically - the hideous picture going through their minds? I'll have to confess here - just about all I remember about sitting there (except for police or ER), were the horrendous pictures of me ending my mom's life. Oh my God! Thank God I couldn't do it.

While I realize you were in law enforcement, Bumps, I recognize you have probably seen the worst of the worst case scenarios of violent crimes and the aftermath. But back to the murder case at Vilanova U. - and the type of person the mother, Mine An Ener, is/was described to be. Would you care (please) to respond to this thread again?

As I stated - I won't use the word "excuse" as a reason for murdering a little baby - that or sympathy won't bring her back. Dammit - had I known that woman - I would have taken care of that baby - disabilities, warts and all.

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« Reply #6 on: Aug 7^th, 2003, 8:02pm »

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Wings, sorry but I am not changing my mind. This woman committed a henious, pre-meditated crime on a defenseless child. She didn't just leave that baby somewhere, she didn't even use a supposedly non-painful method such as smothering the baby with a pillow. She took a knife and CUT the baby's throat!!

You are right in that I have seen a lot of cruel stuff in my years on the job. I worked only Juvenile cases for over six years. I have seen babies burned by mothers, fathers, boyfriends, etc. with cigarettes, irons, hot water, etc. "to teach them a lesson", I've investigated abductions, rapes, murders, sex abuse and God knows how many other cases, committed on juveniles. I feel that in those years, I have been able to look impartially and objectively at the situations and not prejudge. I understand the concepts of "temporary insanity", "in the heat of the moment", "crime of passion", "diminished capacity" and premeditation. That being said, however, I have no sympathy for any adult who makes the decision to take a defenseless child's life. In my opinion, that person regardless of who he or she is, does not deserve to take up any space on the planet.

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on Aug 7^th, 2003, 5:35pm, MzWings wrote:

She and I then realized how close I had come to committing the despicable act of murder - upon my own mother.

Ohh.. Wings... I'm glad you didn't commit that crime... Thank God!

Well... Wings... pardon me but I have to agree with Bumps.. cause.. each person has to face the consequences of his every action... The mother has committed a crime, to her child to make it worse...

I could only pity her conscience attack but.. she deserves to be put into bars... Grin

but after rehabilitation.. then maybe.. she should have the right to correct her wrongs... Grin

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i have to say that i agree with wings primarily because i don't think any of us can know what goes on in another's head. while it sickens me and i pray against people using postpardum as a defense, i, too, have suffered from depression and know that thinking is never clear through those eyes.

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« Reply #9 on: Aug 8^th, 2003, 1:19am »

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After working with child victims of abuse in therapy a few years back...I'm with Bumper.

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« Reply #10 on: Aug 8^th, 2003, 9:28am »

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In my last post - obviously I was too wordy and my "point" was lost. Roll Eyes

"A little less than three years ago, I came too close to wanting to kill my mother, and actually doing it......

...all I remember about sitting there (except for police or ER), were the horrendous pictures of me ending my mom's life...... (In a court of law, this could be deemed "premeditated" (murder).

How would the defense/prosecution have handled this:

"(The neighbor) said that it took nearly 10 minutes to get my attention. I HAD NO RECOLLECTION OF THAT, AND TO THIS DAY I DON'T REMEMBER IT."

BUMPER: "I understand the concepts of "temporary insanity", "in the heat of the moment", "crime of passion", "diminished capacity" and premeditation."

Which of those would I have fit into Bumps - I would think all of the above.

It makes me squirm and shiver to this day, that during that blanked out period of time, to think what I could have done. I've prayed for forgiveness for this and thanked the Lord for what must have been divine intervention.

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on Aug 8^th, 2003, 9:28am, MzWings wrote:

In my last post - obviously I was too wordy and my "point" was lost. Roll Eyes

Wings, I would imagine that "diminished capacity" might be used but I would suggest that a tooth brush be packed when going to court, because in all probablility, it's gonna be needed. In our criminal justice system trying to use the defense of "temporary insanity" is very difficult, if it can be proven that you know the difference between right and wrong.

Just because you tuned out everything while you were sitting there in that car doesn't make you "insane" or not in control. By your very actions of sitting there thinking/praying about what you might do, weighing the possibilities, etc. means that you knew right from wrong, and was engaged in a decision making process. Focused, single-minded rage, obsessing, all posibilities but being temporiarily insane, IMO I doubt it.

I still stand by my previous statements. I have NO sympathy for an ADULT who makes a concious, premeditated decision to harm a CHILD. That woman made that premeditated decision. 1. Making a decision to go seeking out that knife, 2. carrying it to where the baby was, and 3. using it not once but TWICE to cut that baby's throat were THREE premeditated acts! That was a defenseless child, with no opportunity to flee, protest, reason, or fight back. For that, this woman deserves to be prosecuted to the FULLEST extent of the law regardless of any self-absorbing condition she might think she was in.

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