Texas mother hangs herself, 3 children
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A young mother who may have been depressed apparently hanged three of her small daughters and herself in a closet using pieces of clothing and sashes, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth child, an 8-month-old daughter, was also found dangling in the closet but was rescued from the family's mobile home.
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Police in India arrest four sons of a woman they believe committed suicide by jumping onto her husband's pyre.
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Maria didn't mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite. Worried about her daughters' lack of appetite, the young Houston mother was merely following her grandmother's advice when she gave the two girls and a niece a dose of "greta" Â a Mexican folk medicine used to treat children's stomach ailments.
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Assailants slit the throats of a mother and her three children Wednesday in southern Iraq, where the family had fled to escape threats that they had cooperated with the Americans.
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When a mother admitted killing her baby daughter by severing the child's arms this week, she joined a high-profile list of Texas women with histories of mental illness who have killed their children in gruesome fashion.
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Three children and their mother were found hanged in a mobile home west of Fort Worth and a fourth child, an 8-month-old baby, was also found hanging but survived, police said on Tuesday.
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HOUSTON -- Maria didn't mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite. Worried about her daughters' lack of appetite, the young Houston mother was merely following her grandmother's advice when she gave the two girls and a niece a dose of "greta" _ a Mexican folk medicine used to treat children's...
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The mothers of five children killed in a house fire were charged with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday after they were accused of leaving the youngsters alone while they went to a bar, authorities said.
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NEW YORK  - Mothers of young children who feel they lack emotional support or help in caring for their children have more than three-times the risk of mental health problems compared to their peers who feel adequately supported, a new study shows.
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Surrogate mother gave birth to her daughter's three children -- two boys and a girl -- by Caesarean section.
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A woman is raped at knifepoint in her own bed while her two young children sleep nearby, police say.
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Relatives of a missing boy's mother who killed herself after aggressive questioning by CNN's Nancy Grace sued the network and the talk-show host Tuesday, claiming Grace caused emotional distress that led to the suicide.
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Guatemalan police responding to a neighbor's report of strange odors and a crying infant found an 18-month-old girl bawling beside the bodies of two other children and two adults, one of them apparently her pregnant mother.
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A woman with a history of child neglect complaints was arrested in a drunken stupor after her two young boys were found dead in their apartment of malnutrition and dehydration, authorities said.
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Four children and their mother were found hanging in a mobile home west of Fort Worth, police said on Tuesday.
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An infanticide expert discusses why parents murder their children and whether any lessons can be learned from the case of the Texas woman who hanged her daughters.
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A man killed five people, including three of his children, before fatally shooting himself Saturday morning, and a fourth child was in the hospital with life-threatening wounds, police said.