What's going on with Texas ? A man microwaves his child and now this??
National News
Texas Mother Kills Herself, 3 Children
By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press Writer
Posted: May. 29, 2007
Updated: May. 30, 2007
HUDSON OAKS, Texas — Alejandra Estrada broke into her sister's trailer because she wanted to know why she hadn't shown up at work.
Inside, she found Gilberta Estrada and Gilberta's four young daughters hanging in a closet.
Gilberta Estrada, 25, and three of the girls were dead. The youngest, 8-month-old Evelyn Frayre, was alive but in dire need of medical care.
Alejandra Estrada pulled the infant from the noose and called 911. The child was listed in good condition at a Fort Worth hospital, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said.
Fowler said the hangings appeared to be murder-suicide because the doors were locked from the inside and a relative said Gilberta Estrada had been depressed. He said they had last been seen alive Monday afternoon outside the trailer and things had appeared normal.
"My mind cannot get around how all this can happen," Fowler said. "It's almost unthinkable."
Filly Echeverria, who said she was the children's godmother, identified the dead children as Maria Teresa Estrada, Janet Frayre and Magaly Frayre. Authorities said they believed their ages were 5, 3 and 2.
Fowler said more information, such as how long they had been dead and whether the children were drugged or suffocated before they were hanged, would be released after autopsies Wednesday.
After hanging her daughters with pieces of clothing tied around a wooden board that served as a clothes rod, Estrada apparently looped the noose around her neck, leaned into it and buckled her knees to kill herself, Fowler said.
He said Gilberta Estrada had won a temporary restraining order in August against Gregorio Frayre Rodriguez, believed to be the father of Evelyn and some of the other youngsters, after a domestic violence incident involving Estrada.
Fowler said the couple had stopped living together in February. Tuesday was the first emergency police call to the trailer, and Fowler said there was no evidence that Frayre abused the girls.
A telephone listing for Frayre, 38, could not immediately be located.
Child Protective Services will decide who will take custody of the baby, Fowler said.
Texas has had several children killed by their mothers in recent years.
Less than five years ago, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself.
Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family's Houston bathtub in 2001. In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young sons to death with stones in East Texas, and Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a Plano bathtub. Dena Schlosser fatally severed her 10-month-old daughter's arms with a kitchen knife in 2004.
All four of those women were found innocent by reason of insanity. Yates initially was convicted of capital murder, but that verdict was overturned on appeal.
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Associated Press writer Jamie Stengle in Dallas contributed to this report.
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2007-05-31 05:23:45 · 13 answers · asked by SDC 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, it is very sad. may God have mercy on their souls.
If you know someone who may be mentally or emotionally disturbed, don't just tell them to get to a doctor, take them there yourself.
2007-05-31 05:34:01 · answer #1 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As alarming as it might seem, there is a whole lot of insanity in the world, and there always has been. This world is rotting, and people still can't see that they need God, not a religion, but a personal relationship with God. Since they think that they've got it all figured out, they get death. And that's the way it's been all these years.
No matter how bad things get, people won't give God a chance, or will subtitute other things like a 'religion' to gives them standards that many cannot live by.
I have a relationship with God. And even though my life is full of problems, I remain substantially secure. What Paul said about this:
Hebrews 11
1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
It really works. Everything can go to crap around me, but as long as I trust God I am sustained. People just don't get it.
2007-05-31 05:36:08 · answer #2 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Read that yesterday. Makes me wonder what that town's church is preaching.
Same town.
>>Less than five years ago, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself.<<
2007-05-31 05:27:13 · answer #3 · answered by Spookshow Baby 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Andrea Yates a few years ago...drowned her children...that she homeschooled...
It seems that many of these people are religious folks...what is going on?
Obviously, they are misdirected...of course, the Mother's blame this on post traumatic stress....
I blame it on not taking responsibity for your actions...and if you cannot support either financially, or emotionally children...please do not have them just because society tells you to.
2007-05-31 05:30:12 · answer #4 · answered by G.C. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Texas is challenging Florida for the title of craziest state.
Mention Texas has a 92% Christian population and you are in the right category.
2007-05-31 05:29:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
In a population of three hundred million you'll find quite a few kooks. Just think how many didn't do those things.
2007-05-31 05:36:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe The Lord ordered them to kill their children...
After all, He did tell Abraham to kill his son Isaac. Abraham would've done it, too, were it not for the intervention of an angel...
Maybe they've just got a shortage of angels in Texas...
"Legal" angels,that is...
I imagine there's an abundance of illegal immigrant angels floating all over the place.
2007-05-31 05:38:18 · answer #7 · answered by Saint Christopher Walken 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Some people have psycological issues.
2007-05-31 05:46:38 · answer #8 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Uh, too long.
But I read the first two sentences.
Very sad,Very scary.Next time just put the website.
I'm sorry.
2007-05-31 05:31:11 · answer #9 · answered by African Sista_4ever 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well, I'm sure it's all part of god's plan, otherwise it wouldn't have happened. Either that, or it's done by satan, who god created knowing exactly what he would do, so it's still part of god's plan. Why can't you be happy that god's will was done?
2007-05-31 05:33:05 · answer #10 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋