Mother puts dead children in bed, lies down beside them to die
A woman in Canley Heights, Australia, tucked her two dead children into bed, then lay down next to them waiting to die herself. Her husband discovered the grizzly scene in time to call an ambulance. The woman is currently recovering in the hospital. While police have not announced an official cause of death for the children, it surely can’t be ruled out that this was possibly a murder/suicide attempt.
A neighbour of the family, who wanted to be known only as Wendy, had followed the distraught father into the house after he had pleaded with her to call an ambulance.
She said she was overcome with a “sickening sadness” when she pulled back blankets on the bed where the woman lay to reveal the children’s cold and blue bodies. Wendy said there were prescription pills and pill packets lying about the room.
“The mother had cut wounds to her arms,” she said. “The two kids were blue, they were cold. The mother was blue as well, but not as bad as the two kids.”
The children bore no obvious signs of injury, a police spokesman said.
Information from: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/moth...
