Most tragic story of the day, so far, 3 dead babies found in filthy home...

[Archae]

Four kids were taken from the home, so far, (they are digging through all the trash and filth,) they have found dead dogs and cats too.

Woman held without bail after 3 dead babies found

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and DENISE LAVOIE

Associated Press

BLACKSTONE, Mass. (AP) - A woman who lived at a squalid, vermin-infested home where the bodies of three infants were found this week was arraigned Friday on charges including fetal death concealment and ordered held without bail as the search for more possible bodies continued.

Detectives investigating a case of reckless endangerment of children found the bodies at a house littered with soiled diapers in Blackstone, about 50 miles southwest of Boston along the Rhode Island border. Four other children had been removed from the home two weeks earlier.

Erika Murray, 31, was arrested Thursday night on charges including fetal death concealment, witness intimidation and permitting substantial injury to a child. Not guilty pleas were entered Friday on her behalf.

Her attorney, Keith Halpern, suggested that Murray struggled with mental illness.

"You've seen the photos of this house," he said. "Do you think somebody could live in those circumstances and not be seriously mentally ill?"

http://www.wbay.com/story/26514332/woman-held-without-bail-after-3-dead-babies-found

[PDJane]

1. Of course she's mentally ill.

That's not going to help, and the children should have been removed from her care at birth....if anyone was paying attention.

[yeoman6987]

3. And if they did,

Someone would be screaming about how unfair it is to take children away from the lady. Sad story. I wonder if anyone else had any idea of her living this way.

[Anansi1171]

2. Hell on Earth! Imagine what a little Social Responsibility would...

...have reaped instead of this dark corner of death.