As the Associated Press article on the Gilberta Estrada murders notes, in recent years there has been a spate of Texas women murdering their children, and not one was held criminally culpable for her actions:
In 2004, Dena Schlosser fatally severed her 10-month-old daughter’s arms with
a kitchen knife.
In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young sons to death with stones in East Texas.
In 2003 Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a Plano bathtub.
In 2001 Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family’s Houston bathtub.
All four were found not guilty by reason of insanity.
(In addition, Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself, and Gilberta Estrada murdered three of her daughters this week. To learn more, see my blog post Texas Mother Murders Her 3 Children–and It’s Ex-Boyfriend’s Fault?!).
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