Quebec mom, charged with killing her kids, dies of hunger strike

[spaminator]

Quebec mom, charged with killing her kids, dies of hunger strike
QMI AGENCY
First posted: Friday, January 16, 2015 10:01 AM EST | Updated: Friday, January 16, 2015 10:23 AM EST
DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. — Sonia Blanchette, scheduled to be tried in the murder of her three children, has died of a hunger strike, a hospital said Friday.
The woman stopped eating and died Friday morning.
Blanchette faced charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of Lorelie, 5, Loic, 4, and Anais 2, in December 2012.
Blanchette leaves behind a fourth child. She had given birth to the baby girl behind bars.
A coroner's report indicates two of the three young victims died by drowning. The oldest child died by strangling and drowning.
The tragic events happened when Blanchette was visiting her mother. Blanchette had lost custody of the children to the father, Patrick Desautels, in 2011.
The children rarely visited their mother, and when they did, the meetings were supervised. Their maternal grandmother was supposed to have been supervising the day they died, but she was absent at the time.
The dead woman also faced a kidnapping charge related to an earlier incident involving the youngest child.
Her trial was scheduled to begin in October 2016 and she had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
The trial has now been cancelled and a death certificate will be presented to the court.
Sonia Blanchette, the mother of three children found dead in their home last Sunday in Drummondville leaves the hospital Wednesday, December 5, 2012. (ERIC BEAUPRE/QMI Agency)

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[Tecumsehsbones]

She should be posthumously pardoned for doing the Crown a favour.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

She should be posthumously pardoned for doing the Crown a favour.

I was thinking posthumously convicted so she will be always remembered as a criminal not an alleged criminal.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I was thinking posthumously convicted so she will be always remembered as a criminal not an alleged criminal.

Who cares? She's dead.

 

[Sal]

The children rarely visited their mother, and when they did, the meetings were supervised. Their maternal grandmother was supposed to have been supervising the day they died, but she was absent at the time.
The dead woman also faced a kidnapping charge related to an earlier incident involving the youngest child.

there's just all kinds of wrong in the above sentence

 

[JLM]

Just as well!

 

[MHz]

I'm reading this as a bad news story with a happy ending, my stomach is still unsettled at the moment even with that outlook. If you are a parent and you intentionally kill your own kids, joining them might be done at the same time as the remorse and suicidal thoughts between the two points isn't going to enhance the whole experience.

 

[WLDB]

Hopefully the baby wont be too traumatized when she learns about what happened to her siblings and how her mother died.

Also hope the grandmother didnt get off. If she was supposed to be supervising and wasnt she should face some consequences for that given what happened.

 

[Sal]

Hopefully the baby wont be too traumatized when she learns about what happened to her siblings and how her mother died.

Also hope the grandmother didnt get off. If she was supposed to be supervising and wasnt she should face some consequences for that given what happened.

if she is half way balanced and who knows about that, but if she is...the consequences are already there

I'm reading this as a bad news story with a happy ending, my stomach is still unsettled at the moment even with that outlook. If you are a parent and you intentionally kill your own kids, joining them might be done at the same time as the remorse and suicidal thoughts between the two points isn't going to enhance the whole experience.

I don't see a good ending...she shouldn't have had any access to the kids after the kidnapping attempt, system failure again at handling the mentally ill

I'm all about rights but not where it endangers the children in any way and she was clearly unbalanced from the get go and pregnant as well so her chemical imbalance was a given

we don't really know what happened because they are keeping the details out of the press...it's the Canadian thing to do...that is sometimes good, other times bad

 

[Twila]

My daughter is 23 and even now, just the thought of someone being mean to her, has me feeling the momma grizzly inside wanting to get out.

I can't imagine what kind of fukked up brain activity would be going on to do what this lady has done to her children. It's so entirely foreign to me.

Glad that she is no longer a financial burden to the Canadian population or her last child.

 

[Sal]

My daughter is 23 and even now, just the thought of someone being mean to her, has me feeling the momma grizzly inside wanting to get out.

I can't imagine what kind of fukked up brain activity would be going on to do what this lady has done to her children. It's so entirely foreign to me.

Glad that she is no longer a financial burden to the Canadian population or her last child.

I don't get why she was allowed any access after the attempted kidnapping...baffles me

pregnant five times wtf is that about too...the whole thing is wrong on so many levels

 

[taxslave]

I don't get why she was allowed any access after the attempted kidnapping...baffles me

pregnant five times wtf is that about too...the whole thing is wrong on so many levels

Cause she has rights. Kids don't.

 

[Sal]

Cause she has rights. Kids don't.

yes, that's exactly it

 

[Twila]

Cause she has rights. Kids don't.

Isn't it funny how we got that backwards? The one thing ALL adults should have as a weapon against depression is a wonderful childhood. We could prevent so much tragedy and heartache in adulthood IF we'd only recognize the importance of a fun, wonderful, safe, educationally rich and vibrantly honest childhood.

Adults have the power to give their children this weapon.

 

[Angstrom]

Courts will give access to kids to a mother no matter how bad condition's get. We can't say as much for the men, not that I find that surprising in this feminist society.

 

[DaSleeper]

Courts will give access to kids to a mother no matter how bad condition's get. We can't say as much for the men, not that I find that surprising in this feminist society.

You really are fixated on this shyte aren't you?

 

[Angstrom]

You really are fixated on this shyte aren't you?

Yes the more feminist pull the blanket the more I'll pull back

 

[MHz]

if she is half way balanced and who knows about that, but if she is...the consequences are already there


I don't see a good ending...she shouldn't have had any access to the kids after the kidnapping attempt, system failure again at handling the mentally ill

I'm all about rights but not where it endangers the children in any way and she was clearly unbalanced from the get go and pregnant as well so her chemical imbalance was a given

we don't really know what happened because they are keeping the details out of the press...it's the Canadian thing to do...that is sometimes good, other times bad

Lots of money spent on promoting safety for kids, update the orphanages and abused kids would just show up. Show up with a vid showing 'stress at the fort' and in for 2 weeks (with the 300 other revolving runaways). Not saying parents could fake a vid with the kids just to get some time alone bout if the parents and kids got together they could fake a vid to get a vacation from each other.