10 crazy Mothers in History
Some crimes are simply unforgivable. A mother being so cruel and inhumane to her offsprings is unnatural and abnormal, even for wilder creatures. Usually the mother instinct is one of the greatest, a mother will protect her offspring. No matter the situation,she will always give her life In place of her kid’s. Unfortunately, not all mothers have such protective instinct.
Today, we're counting down on the top 10 worst mothers in history.
10.) Susan Smith.
In 1994, Susan Smith reported that her car had been stolen with her 14 month old and three year old son inside. "I want to say to my baby mama loves you", she said, adding racial tension to the mix. She claimed they were taken by a, quote- "black man" for the next week. She pleaded for their safe return and drew sympathy from the entire nation. Nine days later, she confessed to strapping her boys inside her car and driving it right into a lake where they drowned. Smith's confession caused nationwide outrage, and despite claims of postpartum depression, she was sentenced to life in prison.
9.) Teresa Nour
Nour was a single mother of six who tortured her children. The abuse they experienced was so severe that it inspired a well known horror movie named -The Afflicted. Come on open. Although all six children were made to suffer, the eldest daughter, Susan and Sheila received the worst of it. Susan was stabbed, shot, subjected to home surgery and finally burned alive by her brothers at her mother's instruction, nor forced Sheila into prostitution and later hogtied and starved her to death in a closet.
Terry Narz, youngest daughter, eventually brought justice for her sisters when she escaped and alerted authorities, nor received two consecutive life sentences.
8.) Mary Ann Cotton
Mary was Real-Life 19th century black widow. Cotton buried three husbands,each after marriage. They were diagnosed with intestinal problems, which are now believed to have been arsenic poisoning. 11 of her children also died of similarly causes. The motive behind these murders, it would appear to be financial. She would get married just to collect life insurance court and she always got away with murder for 20 years until she made the mistake of complaining about her stepson to a parish official.But when the healthy boy died less than a week later, An investigation was launched. Mary Ann Cotton was found guilty of murder and hanged for her crimes and bind the legs over her head.
7.) Claire Biggs
Claire Biggs was known to authorities and social workers. Her prior convictions, including drug abuse, led to the removal of her first child. But her second child, Reese, fell through the cracks. And so he remained in her custody and her boyfriends' Paul, who had prior convictions for sexually assaulting a child. The infant would need to have been savagely beaten as the autopsy showed 13 broken ribs, a broken shoulder and wrist.
Biggs and boyfriend were jailed for their crimes. But since the exact cause of death could not be determined, Biggs received just eight years for assault and husband got a little over two years for neglect.
6.) Stacy Parsons. But just because she's a mother doesn't mean she doesn't have the potential to kill a Parsons husband. Gary Wyatt threatened her with divorce, and she retaliated by killing their four year old daughter, Victoria. She drove Victoria to a bridge where she stabbed her in the chest, delivered blunt force trauma to her head and drowned her. Parsons then placed her in the trunk of her car, where she was found by Whyatt. The distraught father attempted CPR. But Victoria was already dead. Family members say that Parsons was always jealous of Victoria and was disappointed that she wasn't a boy.
Parsons turned herself into police just hours after the murder.
5.) Casey Marie Anthony
once labeled the most hated woman in America. Anthony says she knows many people still think she killed Caylee.
But when a child suddenly goes missing,Many parents would be on the phone with police within an hour, but Casey Anthony apparently waited a month. In fact, it was her mother who alerted authorities.
Anthony also lied to police multiple times when they were looking for the two year old. when young Caylee's remains were found, Her death was ruled a homicide and Anthony was the prime suspect. After a long and very public trial, however, there wasn't enough evidence to convict Anthony of the murder, and she went free in 2011.
Public outcry following the verdict was significant, as many felt Anthony was directly responsible for the murder.
4.) Bell Gunnis
This 19th century criminal might remind you of Maryanne Corton. mainly killed men, starting with her husbands to claim insurance money while her children and stepchildren were used as pawns.
she killed them when it suited her. She went so far as to put advertisements in the newspaper calling for male partners to help at her farm, only to kill and rob them But when henchman Ray Lanphier threatened to expose her- She staged a fire that killed her three children and seemingly planted a female body to fake her own death.
She had withdrawn most of her money shortly before the fire, and though there were countless sightings of her after she ran, she was never verifiably seen again.
3.) Gertrude Baniszewski
A young couple- Lester and Betty Likens left their teenage daughters, Sylvia and Jenny, in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski while they worked with a traveling carnival.
It is sad that Whenever payments for the girls care came late Chayefsky's true character was revealed and she began physically and emotionally abusing the girls, particularly Sylvia. She encouraged her own children and those from the neighborhood to torment the girls. Sylvia lived through various tortures, suffering, burning and blunt trauma until she eventually died.
Baniszewski served just under twenty years in prison while her children were also prosecuted for their roles in the murder.
The case inspired multiple novels, including The Girl Next Door.
2.) Ka Yang
This mother of four took her two month old daughter Mirabelle and put her in a microwave for five minutes. Mirabelle suffered severe burns. Her internal organs were damaged and she died as a result.
Yang, who had been suffering from epilepsy, claimed she was having a seizure and was unaware of her actions.
Despite her defense, she'd been inconsistent with her account of the events, telling police that she dropped Mirabelle on a space heater. When police found a pacifier in the microwave and radiation was discovered in Mirabelle stomach. Yang admitted to killing her baby and was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder.
1.) Sanaya Shimomura
This single mother of two, was tired of taking care of her three year old daughter and one year old son. So she repeatedly left them alone in her apartment while she spent time with her boyfriend. She would typically leave the children for a few days, but in June 2010, she didn't go back home again.
Concerned neighbors could hear the children crying, locked in. social services reportedly passed by, but finding no one home. The children were never rescued. After a month locked in the apartment, their bodies were discovered, the children most likely having starved to death. Shimomura was sentenced to 30 years in prison for her crime.
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