US mom admits to killing 3 sons in past 13 months

4-year-old Gavin Pilkington died last April.

“She knew she was depressed and she was not getting any better and of course she had all of this responsibility with these children and a lack of any kind of support group”, he said Wednesday. She was reportedly dominated by her husband, who was almost twice her age and was her “semi-stepfather”, being her mother’s live-in boyfriend prior to their marriage.

Authorities weren’t sure what caused the death of 3-month-old Niall Pilkington in July 2014, which was attributed to sudden infant death syndrome.

A couple lost their three sons in past 13 months.

According to a CBS news report, Brittany admitted that she had suffocated her sons to help Hailey, 3 her only daughter among 3 boys to gain more attention from Joseph, her father.

On Tuesday, a sleep apnea monitor pinged repeatedly as Joseph Pilkington shouted “Noah, what’s going on?” and Brittany quietly responded to the dispatcher’s questions.

Outside the courtroom, her mother, Lori Cummins, said Pilkington told her in a brief jailhouse phone call that she was innocent.

That was a theory that was advanced at the family court hearing about the death of the first two boys, Goslee said. The system failed to see the unforeseeable.

“When the autopsy comes back as undetermined”, he said, “our hands are tied”. The judge feels devastated, and a staff attorney who had tried to keep the surviving children away from their parents was weeping at her desk Tuesday night. “She said they grilled her for 12 hours and that she told them she didn’t do it”.

She said she feels bad, but concluded that she had done everything she could.

Noah had been removed from the family by the county Children’s Services agency shortly after his birth, along with his sister Hailey, because authorities were investigating the death of Gavin.

“Unfortunately a gut feeling isn’t evidence”, Engle said. “We deal with evidence and facts”.