Is everyone as freaked out as I am? I know things can get tough being a mom and probably really tough as a single mom, but how can things get so bad that you would physically hang all your children in a closet and then yourself when you have family right across the street? Thank goodness for at least one child surviving! I think everyone should pray for moms every day!!! May they all rest in peace. How SAD!!!!!!
2007-05-30 13:38:47 · 17 answers · asked by KELJO 6 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
The mother was supposed to show up for work at Wendy's at 6am. She never showed up sp work called the mother's sister who lived across the street so sis ran over to check things out and she found her sister and the children all girls ages 5, 3, 2 and 8 months hanging in the closet. All were dead except for the 8 month old baby girl who was taken down by her aunt and taken to a hospital and is doing just fine. I watched the news report on tv and the sheriff was talking to the sister and she was so visibly upset it about ripped my heart out! She was leaning against the front of a vehicle and just beating on it with her fists! Once again I say pray for mommy's every day. We really do have the least appreciated job in the world. They did say in the news report that she was having a hard time making ends meet with NO child support from the dead beat dad and getting min. wage with four children. She was utterly overwhelmed. Yes she should have gotten help instead of going to the extreme.
2007-05-31 05:10:17 · update #1
This was very shocking to me!! With all of the resources out there, and the media attention towards post-partum depression (which is probably what she had, considering the youngest, who survived, was 8 months old) I am surprised that no one noticed anything! I am saddened by the actions she felt she had to take. Those children and the family they left behind are in my thoughts....... God Bless Them.
2007-05-30 15:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by MollyMade 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a horrible tragic thing that happened! Obviously she had a lot of problems in her life!! You ask , how could a mother do this to her children? There is only one real answer, and that is that she was so selfish and wrapped up in her self that she could not....... see...........or put her self in an others place. I do believe there was a custody battle going on, and she figured if she could not have them no one would. She figured that she would take them with her to the other side to get back at daddy!!! This is the same mentality that others have had when they kill themselves and children ! It is to get back at the ex!!!!! It is all so crazy! You say family was across the street. Was it her family or his? I bet it was his family! You see what she did was to get back at and do the ultimate hurt on the living!! I know it is crazy! There must have been a lot of red flags before this happened , she should have been in therapy!! This is so sad, but unfortunately if we as a society can not pick up on these people and do something to prevent them from harming themselves and others, these very kind of murders and suicides are going to keep happening.!!
2007-05-31 03:49:24 · answer #2 · answered by tonal9nagual 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that everything happens for a reason and that even though it made me sick hearing of such a thing I know that it was done for a reason. No I do not believe in God and Yes I am the mother of 3 young children struggling to make ends meet. But everything that happens, whether we know the reasons now or never know them, is happening for a good reason. What if one of those children was the parent of the next Hitler? What if that surviving baby grows up and because of what happened to her becomes the greatest thing this world has seen? You just never know. This tragedy has opened this countries eyes and maybe there is a struggling mother out there right know feeling like this other mother but she decides to get some help after hearing the story. As much as the news makes my heart ache I know that in the end all will be OK and out of pain comes great strength.
2007-05-31 16:16:01 · answer #3 · answered by Kristin B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow I did not know that happened....I do not watch the news much nor read the local paper. So she killed her children by hanging them in a closet. She must have been really depressed & probably had some kind of breakdown that made her psychotic. You said one child survived....that one child will probably have emotional problems the rest of his life especially if he saw them all hanging there. Just knowing his mother killed his siblings is traumatic. I feel for the child left behind. Iam glad that he survied & I wish him well.
2007-05-30 20:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by simplesimon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is terribly sad. As I read that story I looked over at my 2 y/o son and wondered how could any do that to their babies. This woman obviously had problems that no one knew about. I am glad that the little baby survived. This world is filled with a lot of messed of people. I hope they all rest in peace.
2007-05-30 20:45:50 · answer #5 · answered by aprildc82 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too think it was very sad I lost my baby in my 9th month of pregnancy and had to go through 12 hours of labor knowing she passed nothing absolutely nothing make me more angry than when i hear of a mother harming her child/children. I did not even watch it on the news but heard part of the story on the radio. Such a shame!
2007-05-30 20:46:21 · answer #6 · answered by Leesa T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try not to think about her, I hope the 8 month old daughter all the best. I can't even imagine doing that. It's extremely sad, all mothers out there give your children one extra hug tonight.
2007-05-30 20:46:42 · answer #7 · answered by Katie Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What opinion should we have?
She had to be in a weakened mental state, either in deep depression or in a quasi-psychotic state. It still doesn't excuse murdering babies. Lots of people live with severe depression without murdering anybody.
No body's opinion can bring those little girls back, so no body's opinion means diddly.
2007-05-30 20:49:31 · answer #8 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't imagine killing my kids. They drive me crazy and I get to a point that I would like to throttle them. When I get to that point I step outside or send them out of the room until I can calm down enough that I don't want to throttle them anymore. There is no excuse to kill your kids. There are always better solutions than that.
2007-05-30 21:00:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is sooo sad....there is nothing we can do....she should have put them in a foster home or some thing..I am just glad she killed her self..I would have hated to see the government let her live....she deserves death...and she is in hell...that is soo sad she will not get to live a happy life or a eternal life in heaven but no one deserves heaven so just be happy we could go there
2007-05-30 20:45:00 · answer #10 · answered by cttaylor01 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋