IF YOU ARE SUICIDAL, DELUSIONAL AND HAVE HALLUCINATIONS, SEVERE ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION, YOU CAN HAVE UNSUPERVISED CUSTODY OF 2 BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRLS. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS?

Mentally ill single mother was released from a psychiatric ward with little more than a prescription and sent home alone to care for the daughters she would later drown.

She believed she was being followed by people trying to kill her and take the girls away in the months leading up to the killings

Released from hospital in the summer of 2006 following a nearly one-month stay after a suicide attempt, She had been hospitalized several more times over the previous year, once after a psychotic episode. She was given a prescription for an antipsychotic, but in the past she hadn’t followed through on taking prescribed medications

After she was released from hospital the last time, was further losing grip with reality and sinking deeper into her paranoid delusions. She started to believe she was getting signs from God that heaven would be a safe place

Her mother testified her daughter began to fear that people were following her on the orders of her ex-husband and that someone – even random strangers in the street – would take the girls away from her,

She run after a woman she believed took a photo of her children

She feared she would be erased, and it would be as if she never existed

She wouldn’t leave the girls alone, even with her own mother.

She was admitted to a psychiatric ward in June 2005 and a social worker noted she was having trouble seeing herself and her children as separate entities, which was troubling because she was also suicidal

Almost exactly one year before the girls died She drove her mother to the airport and tried to take a route only making right-hand turns.

She wouldn’t let her daughter touch anything red because she said it represented blood

She drove to her in-laws’ house and ran from room to room talking about seeing aliens.

She was again admitted to a psychiatric ward for postpartum psychosis. Days after being discharged she tried to get admitted to a different hospital saying she was having trouble coping, but they gave her a crisis number and told her to see her family doctor - Just weeks later she attempted suicide and was admitted to hospital for almost a month.