Pennsylvania woman claims she heard 'crazy voices' telling her to push her sons underwater before she sat on the boys in the bathtub, drowning her 3-year-old son and leaving his 6-year-old brother in critical condition.
Laurel Schlemmer, 40, of McCandless, is being held without bond after she was arraigned early Wednesday on charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault and child endangerment.
Schlemmer told Allegheny County detectives she tried to drown her two youngest sons, 6-year-old Daniel and 3-year-old Luke, after her 7-year-old son left for school Tuesday morning.
She put the older boy on his school bus at about 8.40am, then told the younger boys to take off their pajamas and get into the bathtub.
'Schlemmer said after the boys got into the tub she got into the tub "fully clothed" and "crazy voices" were telling her to push the boys down into the water,' the complaint said.
'Schlemmer explained that at one point she [was] sitting on top of boys while they were under the water in the tub.'
The detectives said Schlemmer went on to say that she 'thought she could be a better mother' to the oldest boy 'if the other two boys weren't around and they would be better off in heaven.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2595079/Police-Voices-told-mother-sit-sons-tub.html
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