By: Houston Criminal Attorney John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair
The postpartum depression debate has awakened once again in Harris County in the case of Narjes Modarresi, who is accused of killing her two-month old son. Anytime a mother harms her child deep-seated emotions are stirred in the community. Mothers are protective by nature. It’s an instinct rooted in the DNA of all animals, especially humans.
Modarresi’s attorney, George Parnham, recently informed the local media that his client was walking around “zombie-like” in the days preceding the death of little Masih Golabbakhsh.
“After the birth of the first child, she was treated at Ben Taub (General Hospital) for 36 days,” Parnham said. “By all family accounts, after the birth of the second child, she was zombie-like for two months.”
Parnham said he is still trying to gather and assess all the facts before deciding whether the present an insanity defense as he successfully did in the Andrea Yates case—a Clear Lake mother who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001. Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity at her second trial in 2006 and committed to a state mental hospital.
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