America Today: An Unemployed Mother Kills Her Kids

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Mother Killed 2 Children, Police Say
By ROBBIE BROWN
Published: August 17, 2010


A financially desperate woman in South Carolina has confessed to smothering her two children with her bare hands and driving their bodies into a river, the police said on Tuesday morning.

The woman, Shaquan Duley, 29, admitted to killing her 2-year-old and 18-month-old sons after the police pulled her submerged car from a river in Orangeburg, S.C., and discovered their bodies, according to Larry Williams, the county sheriff.

"The statement was made by the mother that she had suffocated the children," Sheriff Williams said at a press conference. "She was a mother that was unemployed. She had no way of taking care of her children."

Ms. Duley will be formally charged with murder on Wednesday, the police said.

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