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sarisataka

(18,216 posts)
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 02:43 PM Jul 2017

4 children, father found dead at Georgia home

4 children, father found dead at Georgia home

A mother was being questioned in the fatal stabbings of four of her children and their father, police in Gwinnett County, Georgia, said Thursday.

Another child was found with injuries, officials said. That girl's condition was unknown.

All of the children discovered at the home near Loganville, about 30 miles east of Atlanta, appear to be under age 10, officials said. The male victim was in his mid-30s.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/06/us/georgia-stabbings-gwinnett-county/index.html
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maxsolomon

(32,987 posts)
2. "She apparently had spoken to a pastor at a local church Thursday morning.."
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 03:42 PM
Jul 2017

"The call came in shortly before 5 a.m., Gwinnett County Police said."

That makes zero sense, unless she called her pastor to tell them she'd stabbed her family to death.

Crimony. With a knife, too. That's some commitment to murdering...

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
3. Why murder children?
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 04:08 PM
Jul 2017



Leave them with friends or family. Or even drop them off
at a fire station. But why take their lives so brutally? I offer
the murderer no sympathy for whatever demons may be
tormenting her.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,230 posts)
4. Not sure about this event, but I have heard some ultra-religious individuals who
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 04:54 PM
Jul 2017

committed filicide say they did so in order that the child/children could go to heaven!

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,230 posts)
6. Not a sacrifice per se but they believed that the child/children would be better off
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 05:00 PM
Jul 2017

in heaven than on earth!

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
7. Five kids under the age of 10 years is pretty rough unless you have plenty of moral support...
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 06:54 PM
Jul 2017

...coming from someplace.

Remember the woman who drowned all her little ones? First it was her religious duty to be fertile all the time, and second it was her religious duty to be perfect in every way. Her parents, her husband, every adult in her life felt they could call on her at any time and her response would be helpful -- and perfect, no matter if she was 9 months pregnant or had just given birth. Oh, and she was supposed to homeschool the kids, too.

When she finally fell apart at the seams and went mad, thinking she was such a horrible mother and wife that her children would surely be condemned to Hell, her husband and parents were given all the societal and churchly support imaginable.

As I predicted, she was sentenced to life in prison and given lots of medication so that she would be sane enough to fully comprehend what she had done. She lives in Hell, and only death can release her. I hope the God I believe in will be merciful to her soul, as she had no mercy done to her in life.

We have no idea what led this woman in Georgia to murder her whole family. I am sorry for the dead. But I won't judge her until much more is known.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
9. Maybe. In that range from what I understand reading about it.
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 08:43 PM
Jul 2017

I bet Georgia tries to give her the needle.

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