Three children found dead

[RedandChecker]

m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27122410

Very, very sad

[TheSporkforeatingkyriarchy]

emtee88 Thank you for your contribution.

I am a disabled adult and most of my childhood was spent surrounded by similar misconceptions and thinking I wasn't going to live to see adulthood - I didn't think my disabilities would get me, but the adults around me. I recall all the ableist comments about how unfortunate my parents are, how much better off I would be in heaven, hearing my mother rage that if I loved her, I would jump from my bedroom window and make her life so much easier. I spent years staring at the light around my door crying thinking tonight would the night. I know they tried. I know I suffered far more violence and neglect than either of my able-bodied siblings. I sometimes still get surprised that I survived this long. Having my own disabled children has just make me more sickened by what they and others still think of us and our lives.

Being a parent of disabled people doesn't make one a long suffering saint, being disabled doesn't mean one is a tragedy. The reporting around this and similar stories of disabled children and people being murdered by their parents only fuels more violence and oppression against disabled people. The media should put to task about how their horrible reporting and desire for sensationalism is hurting people. It's not helping the other loved ones mourn, it isn't helping people understand anything, it's ableist sensationalistic media misrepresentation.

[Icimoi]

Amen, presumably that is the latest. The fact that the mother has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but there is still going to be a trial suggests that the prosecution are still trying for a murder conviction.

[Hailtotheking]

TheSporkforeatingkyriarchy what a sad post.
thank you for sharing it.
I was shocked that the mother is going down the diminished responsibility route.
I wish the murder of disabled people was taken more seriously.

[PfftTheMagicDraco]

There's an awful lot of speculation on this thread. What she must have been feeling. What life must have been like for her. Why she chose to do what she did. And then emotions based on that speculation, as if it's fact.

I feel sadness for the family. But we don't know anything. To assume she chose to end the lives of her children because their lives were limited/she wasn't in a fit mental state/she was exhausted/etc etc, is just all speculation. And then a bunfight erupts. And not even over facts.