Just consider what led up to this. This is something I think that those who were born into the JW cult can probably relate to.
Remember, really until you hit your pre-teens, teens, you can be unhappy, and not understand why on much of anything that your parents do or want you to do, but you damn well are going to do it. So if your parent(s) say "Put the tract in the door, praise be to Jah", it will absolutely affect you. Then you hear about how important tracts are (I remember a CO once stressing that this is the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society), and before you know it, you are trained to think that tracts please our god, the true god, Jehovah.
As you get older, you either rebel, or you accept, or you rebel then accept. But ultimately, you accept it. You are trained to see things not as they are, but how the GB wants you to see them. Tracts are important. Watchtowers are somehow almost superstitiously important. (ever try to throw one away as a JW? Hard to do wasn't it?)
I bring this up because this whole tragedy is based on what a woman was tragically raised to believe from youth. Were she born in the USA, she would be raised as a Christian very likely. Saudi Arabia? Muslim. Japan? Shinto....
But this was how she was raised to believe, think, and act. Does this excuse her? Perhaps not. But what would you do if you were raised from birth with these beliefs, and that this is how you handle a baby who doesn't say amen?
There are 7 billion people on this planet. Everyone alive, conscious, wants to live and be happy, just like you and I do. They have inherited beliefs, and due to a lack of exposure to the real world, real life, it results in this tragedy.
I hope no one who reads about this is naive enough to think that this doesn't happen around the world all the time. Life is cheap at times.
I use the word "pragmatic" a lot in how I view the world since I left JW's To me, it simply means to not necessarily accept the world as it is, but to accept that the world is not how you wish it could be.
For that matter, the mother of the dead baby I am sure will wish the world is different, but at some point, she will learn the hard way that the world is at it is, not how we wish it could be.
This is an illustration of the dangers of superstitious religion. Defenders of theism will say "I wouldn't do that, my religion would never do such barbaric things..."
If you were raised as this mother, totally indoctrinated and insulated from the real world, can you be so sure?
To me, this is sobering. I personally use it to think about using our unique place in the world. You can't help the ignorant who have been taught to view the world as it is not. But if we know the world as it is, we can influence our world around us, while learning the sobering lessons that this sad story teaches.