Mum jailed for poisoning two children
A woman who gave her two children rat poison before smothering them to death told them: “It's just a little bit of hurt”. The 31-year-old woman from Canley Vale in Sydney's west, who cannot be named, mixed the poison with sugar and water before feeding it to her four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter in February 2008. Fearing this would not work, she then smothered her daughter with a pillow and suffocated her son using her hand. Justice Clifford Hoeben found her guilty on the lesser charges of manslaughter in September, saying she had been suffering “substantial impairment by abnormality of the mind”. He told the court on Friday she had been angered by her husband's infidelity.
