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US woman killed sons to put focus on daughter, police say | US woman killed sons to put focus on daughter, police say |
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An Ohio woman has confessed to police that she killed her three sons because she said her husband was ignoring their daughter. | |
Police had at first ruled out foul play in the deaths of Brittany Pilkington's three-month-old boy in July 2014 and her four-year-old son in April. | |
But when a third son was found dead on Tuesday, police took Ms Pilkington in for questioning and she confessed. | But when a third son was found dead on Tuesday, police took Ms Pilkington in for questioning and she confessed. |
She told police she killed the boys by suffocating them with blankets. | She told police she killed the boys by suffocating them with blankets. |
Ms Pilkington, 23, was charged with three counts of murder and has been jailed. | |
When her three-month old boy was found dead in July 2014, authorities in Bellefontaine - a small town southwest of Cleveland - had removed the remaining boy and her three-year-old daughter from the home. | |
The children were returned to the family when the medical examiner found no evidence of foul play. | The children were returned to the family when the medical examiner found no evidence of foul play. |
'Just cold' | 'Just cold' |
Police had been suspicious because Ms Pilkington did not show emotion when her three-month-old son died in July 2014. | |
"She was just cold," James Breaston, a neighbour, told the Columbus Dispatch. "She just stared like nothing happened." | |
The daughter, has been taken into custody by a local child welfare agency. | |
Authorities said Ms Pilkington and her husband Joseph were cooperative as she confessed to the killings. | Authorities said Ms Pilkington and her husband Joseph were cooperative as she confessed to the killings. |
"In her mind," Logan County prosecutor William Goslee said, "she was protecting her daughter from not being as loved as the boys were by their father." |
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