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Topic started on 12-5-2003 @ 07:00 PM by abstract_alao
I think I rember someone on this board who said if God tells you to do it then it's OK.



Woman Accused in Sons' Deaths on Watch

TYLER, Texas (AP) - A woman accused of fatally beating two of her sons with rocks remains on a suicide watch Monday at Smith County Jail, where she was held in lieu of $3 million bond on capital murder and aggravated assault charges.

Deanna LaJune Laney, 38, is accused of killing Joshua Laney, 8, and Luke Laney, 6, and injuring their 14-month-old brother, Aaron. Aaron remained in critical condition early Monday at a Dallas Hospital.

In a call to emergency workers early Saturday, Laney reported that she had just ``bashed their heads in with a rock,'' Sheriff J.B. Smith said.

When they arrived at the home, sheriff's deputies found Joshua and Luke dead in the yard wearing only their underwear, large rocks on top of their bodies. Aaron was found in his crib with a pillow over his face, alive but bleeding.

Wearing bloodstained pajamas, Laney told the first deputy on the scene ``I had to'' when he took her into custody, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

Smith said Laney acted erratically Sunday during interviews with investigators.

``Sometimes she is incoherent, sometimes she's in a fetal position and sobbing. Sometimes she's singing spiritual hymns or muttering about God and sometimes she has a flatliner (poker) face and not saying a thing during interviews,'' Smith said. ``But she has not spoken of the crime anymore. She said it all on the 911 tape. She said she had killed her children.''

Laney, he said, claimed that God ordered her to kill her sons.

The boys' deaths were announced Sunday to more than 200 members of the First Assembly of God Church, where Laney sang in the choir and her brother-in-law, Gary Bell, is the pastor.

Bell told his parishioners that he and his wife, Judy, would stand behind Laney.

``This was a brutal and horrific incident that has changed our lives (and will) for years to come,'' Bell said. ``But we all believe as a family that this wasn't our Dee that did this to her children.''

Another Texas woman, Andrea Yates of Houston, confessed to drowning her five children in a bathtub in June 2001 and was convicted of murder. The jury rejected defense pleas that Yates was innocent by reason of insanity. She was sentenced to life in prison and is not eligible for parole until 2041.


reply posted on 12-5-2003 @ 07:13 PM by abstract_alao
I second that


reply posted on 14-5-2003 @ 10:51 AM by magestica
Originally posted by Byrd
If a woman has a tendency to depression, Postpartum depression can make her do strange things (and yes, it can linger for 2-3 years.)

Now... something I've started to wonder about: I see a pattern in the last several of these cases. The mother is homeschooling, and the family is involved with ("religously" I might add) a fundamentalist Protestant church. Does anyone know if there is an unusually high proportion of "fundamentalist/Bible literalists" among people who believe God tells them to kill their families?



But it's not always women. I read several stories(true) about God speaking to men..Like one where this guy went on to tell the doctors that God told him to get out his gun and shoot off his right arm because of something he'd done-and the man shot his arm...and it had to be amputated What's amazing(in a bad way) is reading the explainations of these people like they FULLY believe God spoke to them and told them to do these terrible things...and these were seemingly 'normal' people til then?? That to me is scarey, very scarey..

This is a creepy story I just thought of and thought to share here..My mom had my sister 7 years ago and she was in Sacred Heart (Catholic Charity Hospital) in Fla. Anyway, my sister had to be on oxygen for a few days and she roomed with my mom. Well my mom says she had a weird feeling one night and couldn't sleep, as she just started to doze off a nurse came in to check on Larah-my sister..and when the nurse left my mom woke up startled and checked her and the nurse had turned off her oxygen! My mom flew out to the nurses station and asks if they were suppose to turn it off and they said NO!! and ran in there and turned it on...noone knew why the nurse did this, and they didn't know who she was either...but it was an uproar within the hospital needless to say! And I don't know...this just reminded me of how sick and scarey people can be...
Magestica
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