Mother Who Stoned 2 Sons to Death Acquitted on All Charges: “A woman who claimed God ordered her to kill her sons was acquitted of murder charges by reason of insanity on Saturday, sparing her a life prison sentence and allowing the state to commit her to a psychiatric hospital.

A jury found that the woman, Deanna L. Laney, did not know right from wrong last May 9 when she killed her two older sons, 6-year-old Luke and 8-year-old Joshua, in her front yard by bashing their heads with rocks. She left her youngest son, Aaron, now 2, maimed in his crib…

Her lawyers argued that insanity was the only reason why Ms. Laney, a deeply religious mother who home-schooled her children, would kill her sons without a tear…

All five mental health experts consulted in the case concluded that a severe mental illness caused Ms. Laney to have psychotic delusions. Psychiatrists testified that Ms. Laney believed she was chosen by God to kill her children as a test of faith and then to serve as a witness after the world ended.” —New York Times

My question: should the fundamentalist preachers who filled her head full of the idiocy that could shape her vulnerabilities into such a malignant form be charged as accomplices to murder, even if she was acquitted on grounds of insanity?