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"Psychologist Marilyn Anne Hutchinson said Bass developed multiple
personalities to cope with sexual and physical abuse as a child. Prosecutors
agreed Bass had mental problems but rejected the multiple-personality
diagnosis and insisted she knew right from wrong...."
{question: was D.I.D. -- Dissociative Identity Disorder *deliberately*
induced in
Mary Bass when she was a child ?}
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/0,1038,500271224-500422699-502632594-0,
00.html
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Woman convicted in death of two of triplets
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (October 21, 2000 8:58 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
A woman who said her multiple personalities caused the deaths of her two
8-year-old triplet sons was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder
Saturday.
Mary Bass, 32, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Her lawyers and
defense experts said she had severe psychosis and a personality named
"Sharon" who controlled her actions.
Police said Bass locked Gary and Larry Bass in a room and deprived them of
food and dipped their feet in scalding water as punishment. The boys died in
October 1999.
Besides murder, she was convicted of 10 other charges, including various
child abuse charges. Jurors recommended eight life sentences, plus 32 years
in prison. She was acquitted on a 13th charge of child abuse.
After the verdict was read, Bass leaned over and whispered to her defense
counsel. Later, after one of her lawyers headed to the bench, Bass was seen
smiling and appeared to be laughing softly.
At trial, Bass was erratic. At one point, a prosecutor asked a defense expert
about "Sharon," described as a cruel alternate personality.
Bass yelled, "Well, what you don't understand? Gee!" and was quieted by her
lawyer. She then tore at her hand with a pen, which was taken away, and then
used her fingers to scratch her wrist until she bled.
On Friday, she was removed from the courtroom after she cursed a prosecutor
and yelled, "No, no, no, no - I'd rather kill myself than kill my kids." She
later laughed to herself as a prosecutor asked jurors to send her to prison.
Psychologist Marilyn Anne Hutchinson said Bass developed multiple
personalities to cope with sexual and physical abuse as a child. Prosecutors
agreed Bass had mental problems but rejected the multiple-personality
diagnosis and insisted she knew right from wrong.
Bass' boyfriend, Tony Dixon, 37, is also charged with child abuse and
endangering a child in the case. His court date has not been set.
Medical experts called the case one of the worst they had seen.
When police arrived at the Bass home after a 911 call from one of the Bass
children, they found Gary upstairs lying on a filthy mattress, emaciated and
so badly infected that his burned toes and part of his empty stomach had
gangrene.
Bass' other triplet, and two other children are in foster care.
Records recently made public showed social workers thought the children had
been abused repeatedly, but didn't recommend removing them before the two
boys died. Officials at Missouri's Division of Family Services said the state
has since changed its procedures.
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