I'm going to stick my neck out here and will probably get it chopped off but here goes anyway.....
I think it is horrid that this mom didn't call 911 when she discovered that her children were dead. I think it is horrid that she took them home instead and bathed them, dressed them, and then proceeded to put them in garbage bags under her sink.
But there are also questions that I would like to have answers to. The answers won't change what happened and they won't change her charges or her having to be accountable for what she did.
I would like to know if the mother was supporting her babies on her salary? Did she get child support from the father or fathers? She was living in a cheap efficiency motel which means there was nowhere for her kids to play inside or outside. Was that all she could afford? Was she getting help with her babysitting bill from DHS? Did she feel that she couldn't afford to miss a day's work as she didn't have a babysitter and it would take away from her income for rent, food, etc? Were the windows rolled down in the vehicle and had the kids been eating anything all day?
I would also like to know what kind of a mother this mother was up until that day? Did she feel desperate in her situation and feel that she had no other recourse then to take the kids to work with her? Did she have no family that would help her with the kids for 1 day?
This mother could have totally lost it when she found her kids dead in the vehicle. Her behavior doesn't sound to me like a mother who just went about
bathing and dressing her kids like nothing was wrong. It sounds like she was loud enough for the neighbors to realize that something was wrong and that one of the neighbors had seen the kids in the bags under the sink. This mother kept saying that she wanted to kill herself. Maybe she planned to after she got the children bathed etc but someone called 911 before she could do it.
From what I have read so far she sounded like a desperate mother who did the only thing that she thought that she could at that time. She wouldn't have left the kids in the car if she had thought they would die. Until I hear that she was a terrible mother and DHS had been called on her a lot I am going to withhold judgment. There are so many mothers in the position that I see this woman in with no money and no help just barely getting by on the little paycheck they get twice a month. They aren't sitting on welfare with a monthly check coming in but maybe they would be better off if they were. When you are a single working mother DHS will help with the babysitting for a period of time and then you are on your own whether you are making $10.00 an hour or $5.00. This is the way the current welfare laws work. These women get no help. I don't know how a lot of single women make it on the wages most of them have to live on.
HANAHAN Two children were found dead in trash bags in an apartment Monday night, and their mother has been taken to a hospital for evaluation, authorities said. 
