Kill Them With Kindness
My mother-in-law Mindy was fanatically superstitious.
When my daughter Amy came down with a high fever, she followed an old wives' tale and wrapped the child in three thick quilts, causing her to nearly suffer permanent brain damage from overheating.
I immediately rushed Amy to the hospital and repeatedly warned Mindy not to feed her anything strange.
The moment I stepped away to pay the medical bill, she forced "holy water" she'd gotten from a suspicious temple down my daughter's throat when she'd only been barely saved from death's door.
My daughter had an adverse reaction, and she suffocated to death on the spot.
Devastated, I tried to call the police to arrest Mindy, but my husband Sam insisted she had only meant well, and had told me to be more understanding.
"Mom was just desperate to save her! You don't have to take it this far, we could always have another child!"
Because of this incident, I ended up being diagnosed with severe depression.
Mindy, however, was insistent that I'd been possessed by an evil spirit and called on an exorcist to perform a purging ritual on me, inflicting wounds all over my body with a whip.
By the time I was barely clinging to life, my husband came home from work.
When I tried to beg him to save me, he forced me down by my limbs. "Listen to Mom. Once the evil spirit is exorcised, you'll be all better."
And so, I was beaten to death.
When I came to, I returned to the day Mindy tried to "help" my daughter once more.
This time, I would make sure they had a taste of their own medicine.