Mum murdered girls with toilet cleaner
September 10, 2008
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A 32-YEAR-OLD woman murdered her three young daughters by forcing them to drink a toilet bowl cleanser before drinking the same toxic liquid herself in a province south of Manila, police say.
Neighbours found the woman sprawled on the ground beside her dead children, aged 2 to 4, at dawn inside their rural home, Laguna police chief Leo Marzan said.
The woman was found still holding the toilet bowl cleanser bottle.
“Her neighbours tried to save her but she died on the way to a hospital,” Officer Marzan said.
Poverty could have driven the woman to kill three of her four children, he said.
The woman’s 8-year-old son was staying with her mother in another village. Her husband was a construction worker in Manila.
The woman had been depressed for days and was talking to neighbours about ending her life due to poverty, Officer Marzan said.
About a third of the Philippines’ nearly 90 million population live on less than a dollar a day.
Rising inflation, which hit a 17-year high of 12.5 per cent in August from a year ago, and a falling peso, which has lost more than 11 per cent against the dollar so far this year, have made life more difficult for most people in the Southeast Asian country.
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