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She shot her 15 and 5-year-old daughters to death in Virginia after inducing them with melatonin-laced gummy bears. Veronica Youngblood did it because of a custody dispute with the father, who initially was going to take both kids with him but agreed to take the younger one. After being shot, The 15-year-old was alive long enough to call 9/11 and tell dispatchers that her mother had hit her. During the trial, after jurors heard a recording of that call, some were traumatized enough to ask if they could receive trauma therapy.

https://tinyurl.com/msnmothergets78

The mother said she was an good mother to her kids in court, but something snapped. She said she grew up in poverty, was sexually abused as a kid, and did sex work to support the eldest daughter.

The defense team was trying to lower the sentence to 42. The father was in trial but concealed himself in the courtroom, so she couldn't see him because he couldn't look at her for causing all of this, knowing that she had a lot of hate towards him.

All I gotta say is.. Fuck this shit. This is the kind of shit that makes me want to support the health penalty. You have animosity towards the father, so you selfishly take it out on the kids as if it's some way to get back at him. I call bullshit on being a "good mother." The father hiding himself in court is weird too.