This story reminds me of Susan Smith....

[Angel]

....... who drowned her two boys, Michael and Alexander after her boyfriend rejected her... :shaking my head:


Mom guilty in children's drownings

DECATUR, Ill. — A woman whose three children drowned when the family car rolled into a lake was convicted Tuesday of child endangerment.

Prosecutors had charged Amanda Hamm, 30, with first-degree murder in the deaths of Christopher Hamm, 6, Austin Brown, 3, and Kyleigh Hamm, 1.

Authorities said Hamm was going along with her boyfriend's plan to drown the children to get rid of the strain they added to the couple's sometimes abusive relationship.

Maurice LaGrone, now Hamm's ex-boyfriend, was convicted in April of murdering the children Sept. 2, 2003, and is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Hamm showed no emotion as the verdict was read, but began sobbing after the jury left the courtroom. Her attorney, Steve Skelton, held her head in his hands. Relatives of Hamm and the children also cried.

Skelton said the verdict means the jury decided Hamm did not help plan the murders, but should have known LaGrone was a threat to her children.

Craig Brown, Austin Brown's father and another former boyfriend of Hamm's, said the verdict would make it difficult for the family to find closure.

"Nothing's going to bring them back, but to let her walk out of there like that is a bunch of crap," Brown said.

Prosecutors had argued Hamm had such low self-esteem that she endured LaGrone's abuse of her and the children and agreed to help kill them.

Hamm and LaGrone maintained LaGrone accidentally parked too close to the water on a boat ramp, and the car lurched forward and sank after he tried to back out.

Skelton claimed investigators rushed to judgment in deciding the drownings were intentional, then pressured Hamm to confess.

During the trial, prosecutors played audiotapes, recorded when Hamm was hospitalized for suicidal thoughts after the drownings, in which she told investigators she and LaGrone planned the deaths. In another taped interview, she said LaGrone planned to kill both her and the children, but backed away from that account.

Hamm did not testify.

Prosecutor Roger Simpson said he hasn't decided what sentence to seek.

Jurors deliberated 27 hours over five days to reach the verdict, which carries a sentence ranging from probation to 20 years in prison. Hamm has been jailed for three years.

Sentencing was set for Feb. 1, and her bond was reduced to $100,000, from $5 million.

Mom guilty in children's drownings | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.
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[Cheri]

WTF?! If she was abuse, why the hell didn't she take the boys and herself out of that house and go somewhere safe, a family a friend, call for help?! Gawd! Don't let me in the room alone with her because may God help me, she would be very sorry she ever met me. Kids are the most precious human being on earth, it just makes me so sad and mad that people go their way killing kids like that, it just turns me off totally!

Will you look at those three precious young boys, how could someone do that?! WTF is wrong with those people?!

 

[Angel]

Susan Smith

Here's the story of Susan Smith who drowned her two boys as I can never understand why would any mother would do this to her own children??...

It was a mild October night in Union. Susan had been driving around for the last hour, trying to calm herself. She drove along Highway 49 and followed the signs to John D. Long Lake. Before driving to the lake on this evening, she had never before been there. Susan preferred to take her sons to the pond at Foster Park, which was closer to her home. At Foster Park, Susan and her sons would feed breadcrumbs to the ducks.

Once she arrived at the shore of John D. Long Lake, Susan drove across a portion of the seventy-five-foot boat ramp and parked in the middle of the ramp. The ramp was unpaved and consisted of gravel and stones. Susan sat quietly behind the wheel of her 1990 burgundy Mazda Protégé, listening to the sounds of her two young sons sleeping. Michael, her oldest son had celebrated his third birthday two weeks earlier and Alex was fourteen months old. Susan was twenty-three, with long, sandy blond hair that she tied in a ponytail. She wore wire-rimmed glasses and was in the best physical shape she had been in since before becoming pregnant with Michael. Susan shifted the Mazda into neutral and felt the car slowly begin to roll down the remaining length of the boat ramp. The car only traveled a few yards before Susan stepped on the brake. With a shift tug, Susan pulled the emergency hand brake, stopping the car from further rolling forward. She opened her door and stepped out of the car. Susan stood outside of her car, on the boat ramp, on the banks of John D. Long Lake and thought about suicide. Susan looked around and saw only black. The lake was not illuminated and she stood alone thinking about her life. The darkness and loneliness of the deserted lake mirrored how Susan felt.

Susan wanted relief from her loneliness and the problems in her life. Susan and her husband, David, were in the middle of a divorce and her boyfriend, Tom Findlay, had just rejected her the week before. She wanted to commit suicide, but she did not want her sons to suffer. Susan believed if she killed her sons first and then committed suicide, that her sons would suffer less, rather than if she committed suicide and left them on their own. Yet, something was stopping her from surrendering to her depression and loneliness. She did not want to commit suicide, what she wanted was relief from all the stresses and burdens that overwhelmed her. She felt that her life was filled with loss and rejection, and that the responsibilities of being a single mother were overwhelming.

Susan’s next decision will never be forgotten. Attempts to explain it will always fall short and continue to leave the question "why?" open to further speculation.

Susan Smith released the emergency brake and softly closed the driver’s side door. Michael and Alex were asleep in the back seat, strapped into their car seats. As the car drifted into John D. Long Lake, the headlights were on. The car entered the water slowly and did not submerge immediately. Instead, it remained on the surface, bobbing peacefully, while slowly filling with water.

Susan watched the car submerge into the lake. She turned away from the sinking car and began to run toward a small house. The story that Susan would tell would capture the nation’s sympathy. Susan’s story would also raise doubts in some and cause a community to question some of its own citizens, based solely on the race of those citizens.

After the truth was revealed, many would try to imagine the thoughts running through Susan Smith’s head the night of October 25, 1994, when she took the lives of her children. To this day, the question still asked is how could she do it? Susan Smith committed the most unthinkable act when she broke humanity’s most sacred trust, the love of a mother for her children.

Susan Smith: Child Murderer or Victim? - The Crime Library

 

[DeafMonkey]

what a beauiful 3 kids I am sorry about 3 boys been drowning. Dont understand why 3 kids of mother murder them. If she having problem with the guy then she should have call for help.

 

[DeafMonkey]

Here's the story of Susan Smith who drowned her two boys as I can never understand why would any mother would do this to her own children??...

It was a mild October night in Union. Susan had been driving around for the last hour, trying to calm herself. She drove along Highway 49 and followed the signs to John D. Long Lake. Before driving to the lake on this evening, she had never before been there. Susan preferred to take her sons to the pond at Foster Park, which was closer to her home. At Foster Park, Susan and her sons would feed breadcrumbs to the ducks.

Once she arrived at the shore of John D. Long Lake, Susan drove across a portion of the seventy-five-foot boat ramp and parked in the middle of the ramp. The ramp was unpaved and consisted of gravel and stones. Susan sat quietly behind the wheel of her 1990 burgundy Mazda Protégé, listening to the sounds of her two young sons sleeping. Michael, her oldest son had celebrated his third birthday two weeks earlier and Alex was fourteen months old. Susan was twenty-three, with long, sandy blond hair that she tied in a ponytail. She wore wire-rimmed glasses and was in the best physical shape she had been in since before becoming pregnant with Michael. Susan shifted the Mazda into neutral and felt the car slowly begin to roll down the remaining length of the boat ramp. The car only traveled a few yards before Susan stepped on the brake. With a shift tug, Susan pulled the emergency hand brake, stopping the car from further rolling forward. She opened her door and stepped out of the car. Susan stood outside of her car, on the boat ramp, on the banks of John D. Long Lake and thought about suicide. Susan looked around and saw only black. The lake was not illuminated and she stood alone thinking about her life. The darkness and loneliness of the deserted lake mirrored how Susan felt.

Susan wanted relief from her loneliness and the problems in her life. Susan and her husband, David, were in the middle of a divorce and her boyfriend, Tom Findlay, had just rejected her the week before. She wanted to commit suicide, but she did not want her sons to suffer. Susan believed if she killed her sons first and then committed suicide, that her sons would suffer less, rather than if she committed suicide and left them on their own. Yet, something was stopping her from surrendering to her depression and loneliness. She did not want to commit suicide, what she wanted was relief from all the stresses and burdens that overwhelmed her. She felt that her life was filled with loss and rejection, and that the responsibilities of being a single mother were overwhelming.

Susan’s next decision will never be forgotten. Attempts to explain it will always fall short and continue to leave the question "why?" open to further speculation.

Susan Smith released the emergency brake and softly closed the driver’s side door. Michael and Alex were asleep in the back seat, strapped into their car seats. As the car drifted into John D. Long Lake, the headlights were on. The car entered the water slowly and did not submerge immediately. Instead, it remained on the surface, bobbing peacefully, while slowly filling with water.

Susan watched the car submerge into the lake. She turned away from the sinking car and began to run toward a small house. The story that Susan would tell would capture the nation’s sympathy. Susan’s story would also raise doubts in some and cause a community to question some of its own citizens, based solely on the race of those citizens.

After the truth was revealed, many would try to imagine the thoughts running through Susan Smith’s head the night of October 25, 1994, when she took the lives of her children. To this day, the question still asked is how could she do it? Susan Smith committed the most unthinkable act when she broke humanity’s most sacred trust, the love of a mother for her children.

Susan Smith: Child Murderer or Victim? - The Crime Library

Oh yeahhh I remember that story long time ago that the mother put 2 boys in the car and let the car running to into the water lake.

 

[Angel]

Andrea Yates

Let's not forget about Andrea Yates who drowned her five children in the bathtub as she waited until her husband went to work...

On June 20, 2001, when Rusty left for work, Andrea was eating cereal out of the box. Due to her mental illness she was catatonic and there wasn't much communication. Rusty would later he say that didn't like leaving her alone with the children but he didn't expect it to be long before his mother got there and he had an important meeting at work. Andrea's serious mental condition and hospitalizations had placed an increased burden on him because he was trying to run the household and do his job. He had attemptd working from home but with the needs of so many young children it was difficult to get much work accomplished.

She was not taking antipsychotic medication. She was diagnosed with postpartum depression with psychotic features and schizophrenia. She had a history of psychiatric hospitalizations, and two suicide attempts.

Once he was gone, Andrea, drowned all her five children in a bathtub.

She called the police and she called hursband at work to report what she had just done.

"I just killed my kids."

When the police arrived, she took an officer to a bedroom where four tiny lifeless bodies laid on the bed -- one was still floating in the tub. She told the officer she drowned her children, Noah, 7, John, 5, Paul, 3, Luke, 2, Mary, 6 months old, in the bath tub. She had to chase down one son to his death. As the child fought for life he tried to tell his mother 'I'm sorry."

"Why?" the police asked her.

"Why?" She stared off...

She believed her children would suffer in hell because mark of the devil was hidden under her hair. She was evil; possessed by Satan. She had to kill her children before it was too late for them to get to heaven.

She was immediately taken into custody.

A Texas appeals court in early 2005 reversed the capital murder convictions of Andrea Yates, the woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub, citing the false testimony of a prosecution witness. Jurors in 2002 sentenced Yates to life in prison in the 2001 deaths of three of her children: Noah, 7, John, 5, and Mary, 6 months. She was not tried in the deaths of the other two, Luke, 3, and Paul, 2. Jurors deliberated for three hours and 40 minutes before finding Yates guilty of murder on March 13, 2002. Her attorneys argued that Yates was insane when she drowned the children but prosecutors said Yates knew what she was doing was wrong.

Andrea Yates
CNN.com Special Report

 

[DeafMonkey]

Let's not forget about Andrea Yates who drowned her five children in the bathtub as she waited until her husband went to work...

On June 20, 2001, when Rusty left for work, Andrea was eating cereal out of the box. Due to her mental illness she was catatonic and there wasn't much communication. Rusty would later he say that didn't like leaving her alone with the children but he didn't expect it to be long before his mother got there and he had an important meeting at work. Andrea's serious mental condition and hospitalizations had placed an increased burden on him because he was trying to run the household and do his job. He had attemptd working from home but with the needs of so many young children it was difficult to get much work accomplished.

She was not taking antipsychotic medication. She was diagnosed with postpartum depression with psychotic features and schizophrenia. She had a history of psychiatric hospitalizations, and two suicide attempts.

Once he was gone, Andrea, drowned all her five children in a bathtub.

She called the police and she called hursband at work to report what she had just done.

"I just killed my kids."

When the police arrived, she took an officer to a bedroom where four tiny lifeless bodies laid on the bed -- one was still floating in the tub. She told the officer she drowned her children, Noah, 7, John, 5, Paul, 3, Luke, 2, Mary, 6 months old, in the bath tub. She had to chase down one son to his death. As the child fought for life he tried to tell his mother 'I'm sorry."

"Why?" the police asked her.

"Why?" She stared off...

She believed her children would suffer in hell because mark of the devil was hidden under her hair. She was evil; possessed by Satan. She had to kill her children before it was too late for them to get to heaven.

She was immediately taken into custody.

A Texas appeals court in early 2005 reversed the capital murder convictions of Andrea Yates, the woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub, citing the false testimony of a prosecution witness. Jurors in 2002 sentenced Yates to life in prison in the 2001 deaths of three of her children: Noah, 7, John, 5, and Mary, 6 months. She was not tried in the deaths of the other two, Luke, 3, and Paul, 2. Jurors deliberated for three hours and 40 minutes before finding Yates guilty of murder on March 13, 2002. Her attorneys argued that Yates was insane when she drowned the children but prosecutors said Yates knew what she was doing was wrong.

Andrea Yates
CNN.com Special Report

Wow about the kids been drowning by the bathtub that the mother murder them

 

[GalaxyAngel]

Yeah long years back...
Mothers doing kill her own blood children...

I think some of mothers have problem depression some of called.. (I forgot name one)

The latest news: In Toronto (Scarborough), One woman and her 22 mos old baby boy walk and jump on the bridge... *flies down hit the hard ground* on freeway (401 hwy) Both are dead.
Reason why She is very prostum depression.. Nobody willing listen her or help her at all.... SAD.. Blaming the socitey..
Prostum (sp) ok

Oh well..

 

[Angel]

Yeah long years back...
Mothers doing kill her own blood children...

I think some of mothers have problem depression some of called.. (I forgot name one)

The latest news: In Toronto (Scarborough), One woman and her 22 mos old baby boy walk and jump on the bridge... *flies down hit the hard ground* on freeway (401 hwy) Both are dead.
Reason why She is very prostum depression.. Nobody willing listen her or help her at all.... SAD.. Blaming the socitey..
Prostum (sp) ok

Oh well..

Whhhhhhhat? She jumped off the bridge while holding her 22 months old baby? and hit the ground??..


OMG, I think I'm getting sick here....

 

[SxyPorkie]

Too many PSHYCHO.... i cannot fathom the idea of killing my own kids... i love my kids...

 

[moonflower]

OY parents who kills childrens are psychos i hope the society will help them deal with children soon after they are born to be safe rather scoffs them off like help them with depression and etc... no matter how long it will be


EH 3 boys?? from the top page story i see the one of them look like a girl not a boy

oh well

 

[JeepGirl]

sigh.. that really sucks.. so sad for the little boys! they're gorgeous!

We had a death of a 5 year old little boy in my area 2 weeks ago. We believe he was killed on a friday night because the mother and boyfriend were mad at him for his bad grades. then the next day, the mother went to the store and a guy got the mother's car and took off. now.. this guy that took the car had NO CLUE THAT THE BOY WAS IN THE TRUNK! So the mother called 911 screaming and crying saying the guy took the car and her son. so they put Amber Alert on t.v. all day long! the car was found tuesday morning with the little boy in the trunk.

So here's what the investigator said, they caught the guy.. the guy told them he had no clue that the boy was in the trunk.. he was there to steal the car. so they tested on the little boy to see how long he was dead for. they said he had died days before. so the investigator turned to the mother and questioned her. the mother confessed and said the boyfriend killed him because he made bad grades and was misbehaving. the mother and the boyfriend are in jail now for the murder of the little boy. so sad..

 

[MilitaryGirl83]

That pisses me off. If she didn't want the kids she should have turned the kids over to the family members and never seen again instead of killing them! Kids are very precious to me also.. sigh! *Shakes my head* I would NOT be with a man who does NOT like kids nor wants them. No way I am going to dump my kids for a man and never see my kids again. They have to understand that kids do come first no matter what happens and if the man could not understand then THEY are NOT WORTH IT.. PERIOD!!!!


I do understand one thing is that I have Depression and I am on the medicine so it is helping me out alot. It is not easy but I am glad I got the help.. I don't understand why most people would deny the mother to get help for depression or that they don't listen to the doctor's recommendation of NO MORE KIDS.. period!!!


I am ashamed that our socitey has been shallowed by this subject!!

 

[MilitaryGirl83]

And I think those assholes should be in jail for this period!

 

[DeafMonkey]

sigh.. that really sucks.. so sad for the little boys! they're gorgeous!

We had a death of a 5 year old little boy in my area 2 weeks ago. We believe he was killed on a friday night because the mother and boyfriend were mad at him for his bad grades. then the next day, the mother went to the store and a guy got the mother's car and took off. now.. this guy that took the car had NO CLUE THAT THE BOY WAS IN THE TRUNK! So the mother called 911 screaming and crying saying the guy took the car and her son. so they put Amber Alert on t.v. all day long! the car was found tuesday morning with the little boy in the trunk.

So here's what the investigator said, they caught the guy.. the guy told them he had no clue that the boy was in the trunk.. he was there to steal the car. so they tested on the little boy to see how long he was dead for. they said he had died days before. so the investigator turned to the mother and questioned her. the mother confessed and said the boyfriend killed him because he made bad grades and was misbehaving. the mother and the boyfriend are in jail now for the murder of the little boy. so sad..

awwwww.. wow in the trunk without knowing .

 

[SxyPorkie]

Any mothers who cannot take care of their own kids.. have no business of having babies... their tubes should be tied...grrrrrrrrrr...

I adopted two daughters because their real mothers did not want them... they did raised them partly... then dumped them to me.... i got a lawyer to get them to sign adoptions over to me... they did...

 

[Angel]

Any mothers who cannot take care of their own kids.. have no business of having babies... their tubes should be tied...grrrrrrrrrr...

...

I competely agree with you there!! What a shame

 

[Angel]

RebelGirl, how did the little boy died in the truck? did the father beat him to death over a bad grade??....

*sigh*

 

[Roadrunner]

All these 'stories' of children dying at the hands of their own parent(s) is downright pathetic and sickening--altogether, indeed very sad at the same time too. Justice will be served providing that the majority of these will never again step out publicly or allowed to be near children for the remainder of their lives.


**preciously holding closely and dearly all my children and ^Angel's^ within the well of my heart**




~RR

 

[Cheri]

Any mothers who cannot take care of their own kids.. have no business of having babies... their tubes should be tied...grrrrrrrrrr.....

I agree with you 100 percent or shouldn't have spread their legs out to begin with.