US woman confesses to killing sons

Pilkington is jailed on murder charges in all three deaths, including her 3-month-old son Noah, who died Tuesday, less than a week after he was returned from protective custody on a judge’s order.

Another died in July 2014 at 3 months old, and a 4-year-old son died this April 6.

Emergency responders couldn’t resuscitate Brittany Pilkington’s 3-month-old baby Noah, when he stopped breathing Tuesday – less than a week after a court returned him to his mother.

Police chief Brandon Standley said: “The tragic deaths of Niall, Gavin and Noah leave a pit in our stomachs”.

However, the authorities believed the deaths were not of natural cause.

“I have my own working theory on the case – that she did not like little boys because she was afraid that they would grow up and be abusive like her father – maybe controlling like her husband – and she did say that for her reasoning”, Goslee said.

Family Court Judge Dan Bratka decided the case warranted further involvement, but that there wasn’t enough evidence to keep the children from their parents.

The couple’s other two children, newborn Noah and 3-year-old daughter Hailey, had been with child services since Gavin’s death. That said, it makes you wonder if Brittany was harboring unhealed wounds from her own childhood.

Children’s services investigated and Pilkington family was observed/watched for three months. Meanwhile, neighbors like Roger Robinson continue to shake their heads and wonder what would lead Brittany Pilkington – described as meek and shy – to commit such heinous acts. “It’s because this child is dead”. Police say she confessed to suffocating each one.

In each death, the 43-year-old Mr. Pilkington arrives home from his second-shift job before the children were reported as unresponsive.

The family had been under investigation for Gavin’s death, but an autopsy showed no suspicious causes for the child’s death, so the other children were sent home.

His father Paul Pilkington said he is just as shocked and upset as the rest of the family.

The parents also share a four-year-old daughter, Hailey, who was taken in by Logan County Children Services. He remembered consoling a distraught Joseph Pilkington but finding Brittany Pilkington unperturbed. “The system failed to see the unforeseeable and for that reason, you can’t call that a failure”, said Bill Goslee, county prosecutor.

“She walked around like nothing had happened”, McKee said.