21-year-old Rita Sativa Kraft and her 18-month-old son, Connor, were playing on their second-floor balcony on the morning of the 12th of September, 2007.
At about 6:30 that morning, more than a few people were woken up by Rita Kraft’s shriek - Connor had accidentally fallen off the balcony, hitting the hard-packed dirt below.
The impact knocked the toddler unconscious, and by the time Kraft’s roommate woke up and made his way down to the stricken child, Connor wasn’t breathing.
Fortunately, that roommate had medical training and knew how to perform CPR. The timely application of CPR resuscitated Connor, saving the boy’s life beyond the shadow of a doubt. Police and medical crews arrived and a helicopter crew airlifted the boy to a trauma center for emergency brain surgery.
Rita Kraft’s son spent the better part of two weeks in the hospital. He had to recover from the brain surgery as well as several fractures that his skull and facial bones suffered from the fall. Doctors in the hospital still don’t know what kind of long-term effects Connor could suffer from the injuries he received from the fall. The boy could have all sorts of things, such as blindness, crop up later on.
Ok, this is all terrible, what happened to little Connor. But why is Rita Kraft on People You’ll See In Hell?
Well, it turns out that Rita Kraft suffers from post-partum depression, and has a post-partum grief counselor. Rita called up her counselor on the telephone and told her confidant that Connor hadn’t fallen off the 21-foot balcony by accident.
She had thrown him off.
On the 12th of October, unable to live with the guilt any longer, Rita Kraft told the police what she had done, completely admitting to trying to kill her boy by throwing him off the balcony.
Rita Kraft is now facing a charge of attempted murder.
Her attorney has claimed that Rita Kraft’s family has a history of depression. A few of them suffer from depression, she has two aunts who have committed suicide and an uncle has threatened to kill himself.
According to her attorney, some mitigating circumstances which might have influenced her tossing her child to possible death were her past state of homeless and that Connor’s father, who is a roofer by trade, has recently gone on disability due to a fall off a roof. Connor is currently being cared for by his father, who hasn’t been charged.
Prosecutor Ariadne Symons is pushing for a conviction, saying:
The investigation showed it was intentional and that’s why I filed criminal charges - obviously everybody who throws their child off a balcony has a problem
Rita Sativa Kraft has pled not guilty in court, and we all know how that will go. Although attempted murder carries a possible life term, she will face minimal time at best and probation and further counseling at the worst.
But that doesn’t really matter.
Is she a sick girl who needs help? Or does she deserve Hell regardless of what her mental state was at the time?
What we here at People You’ll See In Hell would like to know is what you think.
That’s what matters.
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tricky tricky tricky, i can’t really say without knowing what kind of person she is when she’s sound of mind. if she does love her kid when she’s “healthy” and provided him with the care he needed, then she’s a sick person that desperately needs help. if that’s not the case, fire up the barbeque.
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rachealsmailbox reply on May 9, 2008:
I knew her. I met her 3 1/2 years ago, She was a sweet sweet girl that doesn’t deserve hell. If she did that she needed help. She was not evil. It is sad that that was how her life happened.
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Maybe not hell, but do we really want someone running around who likes to throw babies from a 21 foot balcony?
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Hmm… this one is kind of tricky. I don’t think she deserves hell, but she should not be allowed to care for her child until a pychologist says she is stable and I definately think she needs to go to prison- even if its only a little while- she should NOT get off scott free, after all, she did throw her baby off a balcony….
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i am diagnosed with being bipolar and not once have i thought about trying to kill my kids.thats just a way of trying to get out of prison time.
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If she really was bad, then surely she wouldnt have confessed to it!!!! think about it, if she had wanted to kill the child or didnt feel bad she wouldnt have told the police the truth!!!!
i hope she gets the help she needs to get her back on the right track! good luck Rita
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rachealsmailbox reply on May 9, 2008:
Thank you, anyone that has never met her can’t say a damn thing about her. I have two kids and could even begin to fathom doing that to them but i’m sure she has felt the same way about her boy. She was not evil. she does not deserve hell. May her soul rest in peace. RIP Rita. You are in my prayers girl
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rachealsmailbox reply on May 9, 2008:
oops couldn’t begin to fathom doing that to them
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Mandy…every single post you do you go on about been depressed!!!!! SO FUCK?? Who gives a shit? people handle depression differently! and unfortuantely these people dont handle it as well as you do!! why dont you stop going on about your ‘depression’ and ‘bipolar’ because its getting boring now!!!
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Please keep you language and temper under control.
You have a valid point, but trying to flame someone is not a good way to go about making it.
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Don’t feed the trolls. Mental illness I can understand, so let’s give her some nice quiet alone time in the nut hut.
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I am disappointed that most people think she doesn’t deserve hell, this woman sick or not, tried to kill a baby and was almost successful. I don’t care how mental she was, she could have given the baby up rather than trying to kill him. If anyone ever laid a finger on my baby I’d take them to hell myself!
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who cares mandy–what a cool name you have there.your makin me popular.thanks! this was only the second time i mentioned it.and the points both times i was trying to make is that people are always trying to use the depression card to get off.when really they are just born with no soul.you just like to go around starting fights and im not giving in…sorry…not gonna happen
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Mandy I agree with you that people constantly use the mental illness ‘excuse’ to try and get out of it! what i am saying is in this case, she was already getting away with it! the authorities thought that it was an accident, it wasnt until she confessed that she got charged! so i am saying she does need help and in my opinion does not deserve hell!! and i was also saying that people cope and react to mental illness differently! obviously these cases where more severe than most people! i dont see how anyone who does any of the crimes which appear on PYSIH can be mentally sain!
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I am inclinded to agree with Who cares mandy in this case. However is there any need for such foul languauge?x
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I know Rita and i love her no matter what she has done. She’s a young girl in a difficult situation who comes from a very unstable and challenging background. AND of course, EVERYONE is deserving of hell, including all that are posting here, but it is only by an active and living faith in Jesus that anyone will stand before God on that day and not be sentenced to an eternal separation from Him.
Sometimes people snap….it is a horrible thing to have happened, and Rita possibly couldn’t live with the guilt of it and came forward. I for one and thankful. There is forgiveness to be found in true repentence. I am praying for her and her little one… AC
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If someone is this depressed and has a family history of it why would her friends and family let HER on a balcony that high, thinking that maybe she’ll jump off, let alone let her up there un-supervised with her kid. Once you get to that point, there are always signs. Maybe the friends and family are to blame on not taking action to get her better. If she was going to get to that point and throw her kid to it’s death, then there’s signs and everyone must’ve ignored them. Period.
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Judge not, less you be judged.
Rita is a good person with a serious problem.
I known her personally for years.
How can you all sit at home pretending to be more moral than this girl? Anyone who is without sin can cast the first stone. All of this christ B.S. makes me laugh. It’s a poor substitute for a guilty conscience.
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No shit. She may have even gotten the stupid idea to do this from the bible.
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She threw her baby off a balcony in an attempt to kill him. Sorry, but I don’t need to be “free of sin” to see that as really, really wrong. Depression is no excuse.
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all christians should go to hell for even believing in something as stupid as hell.
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Former Carmel Resident reply on May 8, 2008:
Classic! I love it!
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omg! i’M SORRY, but I have bipolar disorder and have had postpartum with ALL of my kids and NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS would I DO THAT! TO ME when I get down and out I hug my kids and gawk over them NOT TRY TO KILL THEM! I DON’T BUY THAT DEFENSE AT ALL! Well She’ll face God one day :) Then he will DAMN HER TO HELL!!! See you there MOMMY CRUELTY I’ll be looking down on YOU ;)
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Update. She died of a drug overdose in county jail on 5/7/08. They aren’t ruling it a suicide, but people who know her are sure it was.
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Former Carmel Resident reply on May 8, 2008:
Self selective reduction. Glad she took it upon herself to rid society of her worthlessness!
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My daughter was/is close friends with and grew up with Rita here in Colorado. Rita was sweet and gentle and kind. I thought the most of her. When she went to CA I perceived that she fell in with a tough crowd. How this happened I have no clue. But for her to toss her baby off a balcony, admit to it later and now pass away in a jail cell? Unthinkable. Her family must be devastated. My prayers are with all of them. As for this site? Judge not least you be judged. Also the press never gets it right and that is the only thing I can say for certain. Peace.
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1:8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Philippians 1:8-9
5:11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 5:12For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 5:13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
1 Corinthians 5:11-13
If you’re going to read the bible to people, make sure you read the whole thing. There are hundreds of relevant verses if you’d like to argue this.
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