A woman, apparently suffering from depression, murdered her three children and committed suicide in Chile, a country that reacts with pain and horror to parricide.
In 2023, similar cases will be registered in several countries, showing how affected mental health is in the world.
The murders and suicide have affected the Las Condes neighborhood of Santiago, the country’s capital, since the early morning of Thursday, August 31, 2023. The patricide’s children, whom they identify as Begoña, were 11, 12, and 14 years old. years old. She, 47, reported El Tiempo and La Tercera.
Painful discovery of parricide in Las Condes
Chilean media pointed out that the victims’ husband and the woman’s partner witnessed the strong and unimaginable scene in the early hours of the morning.
The woman, El Tiempo said, was found alive but could not withstand the severity of the injuries. All four showed injuries caused by a sharp weapon.
One of the murdered sons had Down syndrome. The 10-year-old was a girl and her father found her lifeless in her room.
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Did you text your husband?
Begoña, according to La Tercera, was an engineer and Francisco, her husband, works as a photographer. The man “is said to have received a series of messages from his wife before the attack.”
According to the initial information released by that site, the woman “would have sent a WhatsApp message to her partner with a certain text referring to what had happened minutes before the events.”
The Public Prosecution Service is investigating the death of three minors aged 11, 12 and 14 in Las Condes as a triple parricide
The first investigations point to the mother, who would have suffered from depression and then committed suicide. I would have used a sharp weapon@elpais_chilehttps://t.co/XYw6np4gMT— Rocio Montes (@rocio_montes) August 31, 2023
They were married in 2005 and were “a normal marriage,” described the caretaker of the building where this tragedy took place.
María Eugenia Sánchez, as En Cancha identified her, remembered seeing the children on Saturdays when they went to play. “I’m still shivering, I can’t believe it, because I have grandchildren. You put yourself in the children’s place,” he complained, according to La Tercera.
“On Saturday they went to play and run”: the sad story of a female janitor of the building where triple parricide took place https://t.co/odxgG9Hs8m
– In the hour Chile (@EnLaHoraCL) August 31, 2023
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This accident occurs three days after a triple murder-suicide in New York.
In that city, “a 41-year-old janitor, of Venezuelan descent, stabbed his wife, of Polish descent, and their two young children before committing suicide,” EFE news agency reported.
The minors Calvin and Lucien were 1 and 3 years old.
In Florida, United States, a mother, Brandy Hutchins, killed her 10 and 19-year-old children on Sunday, August 27, and also committed suicide.
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In Las Condes, janitor Sánchez worked with Francisco minutes after finding the impressive scene.
She also gave no credit to what happened: “The children were not at fault, that is, if she wants to do something (the parricide), she should do it, but not kill those three children,” she told En Cancha. (JO)
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