While reading the article, “Andrew and Hannah”, by Pamela Colloff, the one thing I was kept thinking was that all this evidence was very circumstantial. Every piece of evidence they were holding against hannah made no sense, and they could not make scario that fit Hannah’s personality. I do firmly believe that Hannah is innocent meaning that she did not kill her son, but unfortunately she was found guilty by a judge and jury. This made me very upset and I feel deeply sorry that hannah had to go through this process. There were many false stories that depicted Hannah as being as cold-hearted child killer when that is not the case. The most popular story was that hanah force fed excess sodium to andrew by feeding him hot sauce, while holding
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Since Andrew had pica, an eating disorder that makes people eat inedible things, he was able to eat a lot of salt without his body rejecting it right away. After Hannah woke up and found Andrew showing symptoms of having a common cold, she treated him how you would treat a cold. Then when Andrew started to show signs of distress Hannah tried to help by reading her E.M.T books, but once that did not help she rushed him to hospital where he eventually died due to cardiac arrest. There was nothing Hannah could have done to save him, Andrew already tried to help his body by drinking copious amounts of water, as shown in his autopsy report, but if that did not work, then there was not that much left to try. Andrew’s death was a horrible accident, but due poeple that sought to put the blame on Hannah, her family had to suffer even more by having their mother sent to prison. This story shows how emotion can be used to turn an innocent, church going mother into a cold-blooded child killer. As a result of the jury using their feelings instead of looking at the facts that were given, a family was torn apart and there was nothing they could do. I hope injustice like this nevers happens to another family for it took years for Hannah to released from prison after she was found not guilty of murdering
Since Andrew had pica, an eating disorder that makes people eat inedible things, he was able to eat a lot of salt without his body rejecting it right away. After Hannah woke up and found Andrew showing symptoms of having a common cold, she treated him how you would treat a cold. Then when Andrew started to show signs of distress Hannah tried to help by reading her E.M.T books, but once that did not help she rushed him to hospital where he eventually died due to cardiac arrest. There was nothing Hannah could have done to save him, Andrew already tried to help his body by drinking copious amounts of water, as shown in his autopsy report, but if that did not work, then there was not that much left to try. Andrew’s death was a horrible accident, but due poeple that sought to put the blame on Hannah, her family had to suffer even more by having their mother sent to prison. This story shows how emotion can be used to turn an innocent, church going mother into a cold-blooded child killer. As a result of the jury using their feelings instead of looking at the facts that were given, a family was torn apart and there was nothing they could do. I hope injustice like this nevers happens to another family for it took years for Hannah to released from prison after she was found not guilty of murdering