Sunday School Teacher Stabbed Her Two Kids More Than 500 Times

[matcom]

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They moved here with a mission -- to build a Christian community for Bulgarians who had settled in Chicago.

Nikolai Vasilev was the pastor and his wife, Tonya, was the Sunday school teacher. Together they nurtured an evangelical community in the northwest suburbs and created their own family. They had three children and survived the death of one of them in a 2000 fire.

Wednesday night, Nikolai came home to find his two remaining children, a 9-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, stabbed to death -- some 500 times -- and his wife bathed in blood, a source close to the investigation said.

Tonya Vasilev, 34, has given statements to Hoffman Estates police and was expected to be charged in the murders today, the source said.

Investigators believe 3-year-old Gracie was attacked first, around 8:30 p.m., and then her mother brought her to the second floor, where her older brother, Christian, was watching television, the source said, citing the mother's statement to police.

"The boy looks up, sees his sister all bloody, and asked the mother, "What's going on? . . . The mother then attacked the boy. The boy runs from her, flees to the first floor, where she catches up with him, and she then alternates between attacking the boy and the girl.''

Nikolai arrived home around 9:20 p.m. "He sees signs of life in the 9-year-old boy and tries to give him CPR, obviously in vain, and then calls 911," the source said.

The source said it was not clear what set off the stabbing, but added that the mother had been treated for mental illness for "some years.''

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-kidsdead29.html

[coloradodem2005]

1. Oh my god.

Un fucking believable.

[deutsey]

3. My reaction too

I feel like crying and really wish I hadn't opened this thread.

I just want to go home and give my kids a huge hug.

[kick-ass-bob]

6. my stomach hurts now.

:(

[RebelOne]

2. I bet she'll say that God told her to do it. n/t

[coloradodem2005]

4. So, to keep them from being molested, let's stab them to death.

Great plan. :sarcasm:

[edbermac]

5. Mat, I love the way you try to brighten everyone's morning...

[MissMillie]

7. What a horrible story

I feel so sorry for that poor family.

[Mutley]

8. These are our wonderful

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I feel sick.