Ø      In July 2005, 30-year-old Indiana mother Magdalena Lopez was charged with murdering her two sons, aged 2 and 9. According to relatives and neighbors, she had been taking an antidepressant.

Ø      Annie Mae Haskew smothered her 10-week-old son in October of 2002. Before the murder she had been diagnosed with postpartum depression and had been taking antidepressants.

Ø      Andrea Yates drowned her five children, aged 6 months to 7 years in the family bathtub on Nov. 22, 2001, while taking two antidepressants Effexor and Remeron. Both had been given at maximum dose.

Ø      Dena Schlosser killed her 10-month-old infant daughter in November 2004 by severing her baby's arms. She had been diagnosed with postpartum depression, hospitalized and prescribed psychiatric "medication for depression" before the crime.

Ø      Mary Ellen Moffitt suffocated her 5-week-old daughter and herself July 26, 2004. Before this she had been diagnosed with postpartum depression and had been taking the antidepressant Paxil.

Ø      Emiri Padron smothered her baby daughter in her crib on June 22, 2004 and then stabbed herself twice in the chest. Emiri was receiving psychiatric treatment before the incident and investigators found the antidepressant Zoloft in the apartment where the crime took place.

Ø      Mine Ener used a kitchen knife to cut the throat of her 6-month-old daughter on Aug. 4, 2003, after being diagnosed with postpartum depression and taking "medication" for the condition.

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