Woman killed children with shotgun

According to news-leader.com a woman is suspected of  hitting three pedestrians with her car while they were near the St. Louis Arch. The female suspect was found sitting with her shot-gun on a bench outside of a local television station. Just prior to the hit-and-run incidents, the Illinois woman is also suspected to have killed two of her three children. According to the autopsy report, the woman's four-year-old daughter and five -year-old daughter were shot in the head at close range and died. 

 

After reading this article I was infuriated and confused. After further analyzing the situation, I realized why I felt such strong feelings of anger toward this woman that I didn't even know. I am a mother of two wonderful children. My maternal instincts over took over my emotions.

 This woman was clearly was unstable, according to family members she was under the care of a physician. The suspect was receiving medication to treat depression or had a mental disorder. Why wasn't she in jail or in psychiatric lockup, then? The woman's family apparently had to have known about her mental instability and allowed her to have custody of her children, anyways? This seems to me as though the family was as unstable as she was. There was no one to protect the young children. Fortunately, her eight year old son was able to escape from this horrendous crime. But unfortunately, he is going to have to deal with possibly seeing the murder of his bother and sister by his mother. This little boy is going to have to go through years of counseling to reverse the adverse effects of what his mother has done to him mentally.

Obviously, if she were sitting in front of a local television station with a loaded shot-gun in her hand, she was aiming for a widely televised "suicide by cop." Perhaps this was her sad attempt to create her own reality show? I have hopes that the legal system works in this case and the suspect receives the mental help that she desperately needs.