Inebriated 27-year-old told police she fell asleep on top of 4-month-old girl
The Associated Press, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, Nov 12, 2005
OshKosh, Wisconsin U.S.A.. - A 4-month-old girl died when her inebriated mother fell
asleep on top of her while breast-feeding, prosecutors said.
Lorinda Hawkins told police she fell asleep about 15 minutes after she started breast-feeding
the baby Feb. 23 because of her intoxication, a criminal complaint said.
When she woke up about an hour later, the baby was pale and wasnt breathing, the
complaint said. Hawkins was charged Friday with one count of child neglect
causing a death. If convicted as a repeat felony offender, she could be
sentenced to 29 years in prison and fined $100,000.
Defense lawyer Steven Smits asked for Hawkins release on signature bond so she could enter substance abuse
treatment, but she remained jailed late Friday on $7,000 bond. A preliminary
hearing was scheduled Nov. 17.
High blood alcohol level
The 27-year-old who was on probation for child neglect had
consumed six double-shot alcoholic beverages at a bowling alley, the complaint
said. A toxicologist estimated her blood alcohol level ranged from .15 to .27
percent.
Her husband drove Hawkins and their 4-year-old daughter to the bowling
alley and later brought them home, then went out drinking himself, according to
the complaint. The baby was unresponsive when he returned an hour later, the
complaint said.
Hawkins was on probation for neglect of the same child, and was
prohibited from drinking alcohol and from having unsupervised contact with all
four of her children at once, court documents show.
SINGLE MOM Clara DaSilva admitted yesterday she danced the night away while her 2-year-daughter was dying of
dehydration in a sweltering apartment. Tiny toddler Adrianna Maria DaSilva was abandoned for at least 33 hours in a
35C room before her mom discovered her dead on Sept. 9, 2002.
Clara DaSilva, 24, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Justice David Watt will sentence her shortly after Jan. 17
following a five-day trial with one contested fact -- the allegation that her purse, with keys and cash, was stolen
at a club the day of her child's death.
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ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - A New Brunswick judge says a woman who burned and
dismembered her newborn son is criminally responsible for her actions.
Becky Sue Morrow earlier pleaded guilty to offering an indignity to a
dead body and disposing of a newborn with the intent of concealing a delivery.
Judge David Walker ruled Friday that the 27-year-old woman may have been
suffering from a mental disorder when she delivered the baby but that that
was not the case when the baby's body was burned and its remains hidden.
It is not known if the baby was alive at the time of birth.
At a hearing last month, the court heard contrasting reports from the
two psychiatrists. One said Ms. Morrow was in a "disassociated" mental state
when the crime occurred. The other said she clearly planned her actions
and understood the consequences.
Woman convicted of killing 3 kids after custody
battle
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, USA, August 26, 2008
HELSINKI, Finland - A court in Finland has convicted a woman of murdering
her three young children and has given her a life sentence.
The Espoo District Court says Thai-born Yu-Hsiu Fu was found guilty of
strangling her 8-year-old twin daughters and 1-year-old son in her home.
She tried to kill herself afterward.
The verdict on Tuesday says the 41-year-old woman was found to be of
sound mind at the time of the murders.
Court papers show the murders were preceded by a bitter custody battle
with her Finnish husband who was living separately from her at the time
of the murders.
A life sentence in Finland mean convicts usually serve at least 11 years
in prison.
KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) -- An Ontario woman who was sentenced to 16 years
in prison in one of Canada's stiffest penalties for child abuse will be
released on full parole after serving less than half her term.
Lorelei Turner, 38, and her husband Steven were convicted of manslaughter
in July 1995 for beating and starving their three-year-old son John to death
in a case that horrified Canadians who followed the trial.
But on Wednesday, a panel of the National Parole Board in this eastern
Ontario city ruled Turner will be released but placed on probation until
July 2011.
Until then, she must remain within 25 kilometres of her residence, is
not allowed unsupervised contact with anyone under 16, and must continue
to receive counselling.
"The board would have looked at the risk and obviously found a low risk
to reoffend," Carol Sparling of the National Parole Board said Wednesday.
A WOMAN who killed her infant son by jumping with him from the eighth
floor of a city apartment block has walked free after being convicted of
manslaughter.
Yeeda Topham, 40, of Roleystone near Perth, had pleaded guilty in the
West Australian Supreme Court to a charge of unlawfully killing
21-month-old James Topham on November 5 last year. Read More ..
LOS ANGELES, USA -- Murder charges are expected to be filed against a
woman whose infant son's body was found in a washing machine after firefighters
doused what they say was an intentionally set fire, authorities said Tuesday.
Latunga Starks, 32, was taken into custody last night, according to the
Sheriff's Department Web site.
Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Dennis Shirey identified the mother
and her nearly 3-month-old son, Michael Kelvin Thompson.
Craig and Kathleen Folbigg's first son died in his sleep at 19 days old. Their next child, Patrick, died two
years later at nine months.
Still, it was after their fourth baby died before Australian police suspected something was terribly wrong.
In Sydney's New South Wales State Supreme Court this week, Kathleen Folbigg, 35, was found guilty of killing
all four of her babies.
The jury's work would have been made much easier if they had been allowed to read Folbigg's entire secret
diary. In it, she practically confesses to following in her dad's deadly footsteps.
"Obviously I am my father's daughter," the Australian woman wrote in her diary Oct. 14, 1996, having already
killed three of her four children.
"But I think losing my temper and being frustrated and everything has passed. I now just let things happen
and go with the flow. An attitude I should of had with all my children, if given the chance, I'll have it
with the next one."
Folbigg was pregnant at the time with her fourth child. She would go on to kill her as well.
Investigation into the Death of Zachary Andrew Turner (18
July 2002 to 18 August 2003)
Zachary Turner, a 13 months old baby, died at the hands of his fugitive
mother, Dr. Shirley Turner, who killed him and then committed suicide on August
18, 2003.
Turner was facing extradition to the United States to stand trial
for the 2001 murder of Dr. Andrew Bagby, Zachary's father.
28-year-old Dr. Andrew Bagby was found shot to death in Keystone State Park, 55
kilometres northeast of Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Turner fled to Newfoundland, Canada where Zachary was born. She was out on bail
against the wishes of U.S. authorities at the time of Zachary's death. Read More ..
Canadian Press, (various newspapers across Canada, including the Toronto Star) Aug. 16, 2006.
ISLE LA MOTTE, Vt. A Montreal mother recovering from alleged self-inflicted
wounds will be charged in the coming days with murdering her 8-year-old son,
whose body was found in Lake Champlain, a Vermont state attorney said today.
I am going to prepare a charge of first-degree murder, Grand Isle States
Attorney David Miller said in a telephone interview.
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Days after buying another woman Valentine's Day flowers, a Sydney father came home to find a trail of blood leading him to the bodies of his two young children lying next to their mother, a court has been told.
Australian Associated Press
Aug 24 2009
The woman had given the couple's three-year-old daughter and
four-year-old son rat poison and an unidentified pink liquid before
smothering them and killing them, court papers said.
She then tried to take her own life, the NSW Supreme Court was told.
Doctors agree the mother, from Canley Heights in Sydney's west, was
suffering from "major depression" when she poisoned her children on
February 19 last year.
She has pleaded not guilty to the two murders by reason of mental
illness.
As her judge-alone trial began, the mother's lawyer told Justice
Clifton Hoeben his client didn't think life was worth living after
learning about her husband's affair.
Wicked mum murdered son, 8, with electrical cables after he caught her in
sex romps with his granddad
The Mirror, UK, October 19 2016
Vicious Veronica Panarello throttled her son Loris to death and abandoned
his body in a remote gully after he found out about the fling.
The "manipulative" mum, wept as she was jailed for 30 years at a court in
Italy on Monday
A wicked mum who brutally murdered her eight-year-old son after he allegedly
discovered she was having an affair with his grandfather has been jailed.
Vicious Veronica Panarello throttled her son Loris Stival with electrical
cables and abandoned his body in a remote gully after he found out about the fling.
The "manipulative" mum wept as she was jailed for 30 years at a court in
Italy on Monday.
Panarello, 28, had tried to pretend her son had been abducted to cover up
the horrendous killing in November 2014.
Panarello throttled her eight-year-old son Loris to death with
electrical cables.
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