Was she 'a child murderer of the cruelest kind'? Or a woman who, in a fit of madness and out of sheer desperation, wanted to kill her newborn baby but changed her mind at the last moment? Josina Peereboom from Bergen op Zoom was sentenced to death in 1789 for what she did to her child. That sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and that punishment proved to be many times worse.
Josina was born in 1762 in Bergen op Zoom, which was then stil…
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Was she 'a child murderer of the cruelest kind'? Or a woman who, in a fit of madness and out of sheer desperation, wanted to kill her newborn baby but changed her mind at the last moment? Josina Peereboom from Bergen op Zoom was sentenced to death in 1789 for what she did to her child. That sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and that punishment proved to be many times worse.
Josina was born in 1762 in Bergen op Zoom, which was then stil…