It’s hard to find much that shocks me about the world we live in, especially when it comes to the kind of cruel things people can somehow do to each other.
But this one might take the cake.
Tucson police have arrested a 25-year-old woman for allegedly shooting both of her young children to death, then attempting to do the same to herself. Perla Morales managed to survive the apparent self-inflicted injuries, while 4-year-old daughter Emma Rosovich and 17-month-old Richard Rosovich Jr. were not as fortunate.
Police have booked Morales on two counts of suspicion of first-degree murder, sending her to the Pima County Jail as soon as she was released from the hospital on Sunday. They’re not saying what Morales’ motive is for allegedly killing her children, but it seems they have no doubt it was intentional. No one else was home at the time of the shooting, police say.
The shooting happened around 7 p.m. Saturday at a home near Interstate 19 and Valencia Road.
This article appears in Aug 9-15, 2012.
And yet, not enough deaths for you? It’s be better with one more?
Well, there will be a special place in Hell for her.
Let’s just hope they don’t try an insanity defense, although, really, what could be more insane?
God bless those two children and may He hold them in His arms for eternity.
…each man’s death diminishes me…
What can one suggest at a situation like this. The mother certainly had family that should have been close by and could see any changes incurring in her that seemed odd.
I don’t blame anyone, but I suggest that when small children are involved, family stay close to them and the parents to be help if needed. No one knows the circumstances of this family, but we all are now touched by the tragedy.
Larry, Well said!
There is not enough information to start making comments like the headline of this article.
We don’t know if there was family close by, we don’t know if this woman has a prior psychiatric or medical condition that could influence her thinking, we don’t know if she’s had post-partum depression, we just don’t know! Please hold this style of headline until a great deal more is known. This is a tragedy all the way around.
for Mitch Marcus… no its not enough,and folks please stop with all the excuses.
What a stupid headline. Better that these poor children should’ve survived and grown up with the shame and stigma of knowing that their own mother tried to murder them then successfully killed herself, wondering if it was somehow their “fault” as children in these situation often do? Living the rest of their lives with all these painful, unanswered questions? If this news is true, I think the exact “right” person survived, the one who will have to live every day for the rest of her life knowing that she killed her own children and that she is a complete failure not only as a mother, but as a human being, and the only one who deserves to suffer.
If you don’t want your children anymore, than give them to someone who can’t have children and wants them. I’m sure at the very least her family would have wanted them. Or maybe a couple who has been trying to have children but can’t… This story sickens me. There is no excuse for taking a child’s life who fully trusted you. None. Those children cannot have their lives back; her decision can never be justified.
Jersey,
People are not making excuses, they’re looking for reasons.
Bob, the writer is not looking for reasons, he’s looking for vengeance. The first thing I think of when I read this was, “this woman was obviously very sick.” It’s sad all around. Wishing her dead isn’t going to bring the kids back and makes those wishing to kill her … killers themselves. I’d rather see her get the help that she needs … locked up for a LONG time.
Whenever a woman, especially a mother, kills children, there’s always a desire to see mental illness, depression, sadness, and so forth. There’s a drive to make it not her fault. It this had happened at Sunrise and Campbell rather than Valencia and I-19, this would be doubly so.
Women create half the world’s evil.
when do we come to the reality we humans do not own our children, they are a gift. if you cant handle being a parent someone else will, even in the system they are alive and have some hope.