Defending Jacob 3

I have just finished Defending Jacob and I'm shocked that Laurie killed Jacob and attempted to kill herself. As a parent your job is to raise a good person and to be there for your children as they attempt to become a good. After the murder of Hope it was obvious to me that Jacob was a killer. In my mind he definitely killed hope and he might have killed Ben, too. So in Laurie's point of view she was saving more lives by killer Jacob. This might be true but there are other ways to stop Jacob then killing him. She could have got him mental help and that would have effectively stopped Jacob. Laurie failed at doing her job because she gave up. She wasn't there for Jacob, instead she ended his life. I predict that she will feel immense remorse for her action and attempt to kill herself in jail.