What kind of person jumps off a cliff with two children? **MNHQ warning: upsetting content**

[Leafyhouse]

I've been really shaken by that story about the woman stabbed at home, and the father found at the bottom of the cliff with 2 dead children, 10 and 7.

Their home is about 400 yards away from me. I also have 2 DS's, aged 8 and 10. It's just made me sick to the core. Police and forensic officers all over this lovely house, in a really nice area - and for what? Why would someone do that? Have your own problems, but why take the children?

Just reeling at the moment, am going to hug my kids extra tight tonight. This one's just so very close to home.

I think it's easier to accept the idea that a murder like this is the result of mental illness because then we don't have to face the prospect that evil actually exists, and we have no way of knowing whether anyone we know is capable of doing such despicable acts.

The fact is that most murderers are not mentally ill, they murder people for a reason, be it financial or jealousy. And the majority of mentally ill people are only a danger to themselves.

I hate stories like this, I didn't read it as I normally see the headlines and turn away. The worse thing for me is that the children were at an age where they would have been all too aware....God that is just too awful too even contemplate.
I'm not religious in the slightest, but stories like this make me wish there really was a heaven and hell. The mother would be reunited with her children in heaven and the bastard father cast into the bowels of burning hell.

Sorry for my language, it winds me up no end!!

The thi