She cared a lot about her kids and now that they are dead she is so sad she also wants to die. She knows she has done wrong and is devastated.
imo homicide charge should not be given. Too harsh for this case.
These are cases that happened in my country. These are the kind of cases that deserve homicide charge or much much worse. These are people that hate their kids. Unlike the above ignorant lady that doesn't want to lose a job to provide for her kids.
# 1990: Nineteen-month-old Robert Harlen's mother was out for an hour. Her partner, Graham Ross Sperry, who was babysitting, was later jailed for Robert's death from injuries 'consistent with shaking'. The baby had also had internal injuries.
# 1991: Two-year-old Delcelia Witika was bashed, burned and hit so hard that her appendix burst. She was left in her cot to die while her mother and her partner went socialising. They were both jailed for manslaughter.
# 1992: Craig Manukau's mother turned the radio volume up trying to drown the noise when the 11-year-old's father kicked him to death in their home.
# 1994: Babysitters had seen three-year-old Jordan Ashby with bruises and black eyes - and a doctor had said those earlier injuries were consistent with him falling off his bike - before his mother's boyfriend Phillip Rakete, beat him to death.
# 1995: After the Children and Young Persons Service had ignored claims of abuse and after social workers did not tell the Family Court about fears made by a public health nurse, her father beat 11-month-old Veronika Takerei-Mahu to death.
# 1997: Massive head injuries killed 10-month-old Jaydon Perrin while he was in the care of his mother Leanne and her boyfriend Aron Vercoe who was charged but acquitted of murder.
# 1997: CYPS had removed three-year-old Tichena Cros-land from the care of her mother Moana Whakamarurangi and given custody to her father David Crosland three months before she died of traumatic head injuries and with a badly damaged vagina. He was found guilty of murder but not rape.
1999: After months of violent beatings, seven visits to hospital in a year and 40 examinations by health professionals, four-year-old James Whakaruru was punched and kicked to death by his mother's boyfriend, Benny Haerewa, who was out of jail after earlier attacks on little James. Another child watched and actually handed Haerewa a jug cord, steel vacuum cleaner pipe and a hammer as the 45-minute beating and stomping went on. Convicted of manslaughter, Haerewa was sentenced to 12 years.
# 2000: Hinewaoriki (Lilly-bing) Karatiana-Matiana died from cerebral swelling after being shaken. She had bruising and lacerations to her genitals. She died in her cot on her second birthday while her mother was out partying. Two aunts who had been 'caring' for her were jailed.
# 2000: Mereana Edmonds, 6, was beaten to death by her mother Belinda and her lover Dorothy Tipene. Mereana suffered three serious brain injuries and 30 cuts, bruises and abrasions to her body. Among other things, she had been thrown into a shed all night when she wet her bed. Her mother was jailed for eight years, her partner for 27 months.
# 2001: Saliel Aplin, 12, and her half-sister Olympia Aplin, 11, were killed in a knife attack by their stepfather who first admitted the murder then said he had confessed to protect the girl's mother Christine Aplin. He got 25 years non-parole.
# 2003: Tamati Pokai, 3, was beaten to death by his 'foster father' after the child brought home a packet of jelly beans from kindergarten.
# 2003: After he vomited up his dinner, 12-year-old Kelly Gush was kicked to death by his mother's partner.
# 2003: Coral-Ellen Burrows, 6, complained she didn't want to go to school while her stepfather Steven Williams was driving her there. He knocked her unconscious, beat her to death and dumped her body. He had a long criminal record and had been on a P bender. Her birth father had earlier rung CYPS to relay his fears for her safety.
# 2003: Fifteen-year-old Rocky Wano, already hooked on booze and drugs, had come home from Rotorua for Christmas. His angry father kicked and beat him to death after he was called to get Rocky from the Waiiroa Marae, finding him drunk.
# 2004: Tangaroa Matiu was beaten to death with a fence paling by his stepfather after soiling his pants. His mother got seven years for manslaughter, her husband life for murder.
# 2005: Harley Wharewera, 19, was jailed for 10 years and Jeremy Tawa, 23, for two after attacks on an unidentified two-year-old boy whose home they shared. (The trial judge suppressed his name.) The boy was thrown against walls and beaten, forced to eat dog faeces. His mother, Jill Tania Tito who knew what was happening, was jailed for 18 months.
# 2006: Ngatikaura Ngata, 3, was beaten to death with weapons also after soiling his pants. His mother and stepfather are serving eight years for manslaughter.
# 2006: The who and how of the Kahui twins' killing have yet to be argued in court where their father faces murder charges.