
‘She didn’t show up’: 3 young girls slain by mother in triple murder-suicide
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'The father of the slain children, however, had long surmised that his little girls were victims of a homicide.
“What got me the most was ‘Why?’ You ask yourself why this happened,” Jonathan Newell said through tears in comments to WPTA last year. “Was it because of the visitations? Did my kids die for — because I wanted to see them? Did one hour, twice a month, that was supervised — did my kids die for one hour, twice a month that was supervised? It’s a dumb reason. It’s not an OK reason.”
The grieving father went on to say he hoped the memory of his children, highlighted by the occasion of their too-soon deaths, would be used to promote increased awareness and treatment of mental health.
“We need better access to it,” Newell said. “And there need to be more resources for moms and kids.”'
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