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Woman arrested on suspicion of murder after three ‘ill’ children are found dead in London
Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2014-04-25 09:23
Story here. Excerpt:
'A mother of three severely disabled young children is suspected of smothering them to death.
Tania Clarence, 42, was last night described as a devoted mother who ‘doted on her children’.
She was arrested after police discovered the lifeless bodies of three-year-olds Ben and Max and four-year-old Olivia at the family’s £2million home in south-west London.
Friends said all three children suffered the degenerative condition spinal muscular atrophy – sometimes described as ‘floppy baby syndrome’ – and received specialist care around the clock.
Their father, investment banker Gary Clarence, 43, had travelled to the couple’s native South Africa with their eldest daughter Taya – who was not disabled – to celebrate her eighth birthday.'
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When super-stressed by kids, don't kill them
You know, I sympathize. I get it, really I do. It sounds like they had the "traditional arrangement" wherein dad was working to bring home the bacon and mom taking care of the kids, ones needing constant care from her and others. But fortunately, dad had a high-paying job and they could afford the care for the kids. Nonetheless, it had to have been hard on mom, and she had to have known that these kids were facing an uncertain future (outcomes vary by case; sometimes the afflicted have much-shortened lifespans, but at other times, they become strong enough to function at typical levels and live respectably long lives). All that had to have been weighing on her.
But the answer isn't murder. She had the resources (this is not a case of a "Lady Madonna" acting out of compassionate desperation due to her lack of resources), the support, etc. She didn't have to kill them.
I predict she will not see any jail time aside from what she is getting now while they find a way to "divert" her to psych treatment. Had it been her banker husband who had done this -- well, he'd be facing life without parole.