“JUSTIFIABLY OUTRAGED”

July 23, 2010

On Tuesday, July 13th, the Mayor of Coppell, Texas, Jayne Peters allegedly shot her 19-year-old daughter, Corinne, then turned the gun on herself and committed suicide.  The gruesome discovery was made after the Mayor failed to show up for a city council meeting.

A simple note, posted on the front door, included a key and a carefully worded warning for what police would find inside.  Three more notes were found inside the home including one with instructions for taking care of her pets.  The Mayor’s body was found downstairs and the daughter’s body was found in an upstairs bedroom.

While many wonder why and how such a horrific event like this could ever happen, some speculate the death of the Mayor’s husband in 2008 and recent financial struggles were contributing factors.

This past Monday, July 19th, a Dallas mother of two allegedly murdered both of her children because they were autistic.  She confessed to a 911 operator that she had killed both of them.  She said, “I killed both of them.  They’re both not normal, not normal.  They’re autistic.”

She told the 911 operator she tried to poison them by getting them to drink bathroom cleaner, but they wouldn’t.  So she took some wire and choked them to death.  “They are just blue and they are not taking any breath and their heart is not beating.”

As she continued to talk with the operator she said the reason she killed her children was because “they’re autistic.  I don’t want my children to be like that . . . I want normal kids.”

Reaction to both the Mayor’s murder of her daughter and her subsequent suicide, and the mother alleged to have murdered her two young children simply because they “weren’t normal,” has been one of complete disbelief and absolute outrage - and rightly so.

Most people seem to instinctively know there’s something woefully wrong about mothers taking the lives of their own children and they’re justifiably outraged when they hear someone has. No one dares defend a mother’s right to commit such a heinous crime by murdering her own children.

Until it comes to abortion . . .

Proverbs 24:11-12, “Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.  If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?  Does not he who guards your life know it?  Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?”

©  2010.  Barry L. Cameron

Posted in Abortion, Death, Killing, Murder, Outrage, Suicide, Tragedy