Aftonbladet Report: 23rd September 2011
The mother has confessed….Sister: She lived for them…Chaos in court
The 30-year-old mother has admitted that she killed her children. According to Aftonbladet’s sources, the boys drowned in the water at Munkholmen.
“I did not think anyone, least of all my sister, could do something like this”, her sister told Aftonbladet.
The 30-year-old murder suspect was behind a yellow blanket in Attunda District Court yesterday. Prosecutor Ellen Aule requested that the woman be arrested for the murder on 18th September of her sons Tevin, 8, and Elijah, 4, in Sigtuna.
“My client recognizes that she brought to an end the lives of her two sons”, said the woman’s lawyer, Eva Moller. According to Aftonbladet’s police source, the autopsy revealed that the children died by drowning.
“they had no other signs of violence”, said police sources.
“One theory is that she pushed them down into the water. None of the boys were swimmers”. Yesterday it emerged that the 30-year-old mother admitted to police during interrogation a day before court proceedings that she took the lives of her sons.
“Alive for the kids”
She was arrested with full restrictions and must not have telephone contact, mail contact, read newspapers, watch television or have access to other media. The woman’s younger sister Caroline W. Kamau resides in Kenya. Yesterday she received the heavy news that her sister admitted that she killed her sons.
“I cannot understand it. I did not think anyone, least of all my sister, could do something like this”, she sid to Aftonbladet.
“My sister lived for her children and they lived for her. She must have been so depressed and reached a point where she could see no other way out … I know she did not want to do this. No matter what happens I will always love her”.
“Feeling guilt”
The last time Caroline talked to his sister before the killings was on 7th September. The 30-year-old said that she had no money. Her sister encouraged her to go to the welfare office to apply for income support – which she had already done but was dismissed.
“If only I had known it was so bad, but I did not know that anyone could be so poor in Sweden. I feel much guilt, I am her sister and should have understood. Instead of sending money to his sister Caroline suggested that she move back to Kenya.
“But she did not want to move their children. They liked it in Sweden”. The father of the murdered four-year-old and the mother’s close friend, Sophia Njoroge, were present at Attunda District Court yesterday.
Memorial Service in Märsta
The revelation that the mother admitted that she killed her children caused them to rush out of the courtroom. Sophia Njoroge collapsed. A prison guard had to help her up, off the floor, where she had collapsed.
“After the words “she admits”, I heard nothing more. Everything went black, she says.
“Now I know that it’s her. Now I can start processing this”. The woman’s lawyer Eva Moller, would not tell us anything about the 30-year-old motive, how she feels or if she feels any remorse.
“I will not go into that at this time. I would not go into her condition at all”, she says. Tomorrow at 11.00, there will be an open memorial service at Sätunakyrkan in Märsta.
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fell sorry 4 the boys,may their souls rest in peace
I feel for her and I pity her. In my opinion, her lack of self-respect contributed to her leading a poor lifestyle. Her poor self-worth put her in a situation that was not conducive to being healthy or happy. Two children is a lot of stress in a foreign country. It’s upsetting that she never realized her worth, and allowed this doubt to drive her to the point where she killed her children. Life is tough, but thinking that the State should be there to help you in everything unless you are legitimately disabled, is not wise.
It is a true tragedy that those beautiful little children are not able to live the life that God had for them. It is also sad that the mother was not strong enough to deal with the trash that she had in her life. And for the Swedish father, he now has to deal with loss of his child just because he wasn’t there as much as he should have been, thus harming the mother of his child who was obviously mentally weak.
I don’t feel pity for the mother at all. My God, she should have learned to live a stable life after delivering a child for papers with a runaway Swedish Cassanova. She got her papers and needed to have moved on with her life in Sweden otherwise what was the point of bringing the older son only to kill him later? If life sucks you don’t whine, cry, throw tantrums and then punish your children in unspeakable ways. A little self respect goes a long way. I pray the departed souls to rest in peace.
I’ll never understand why those bent on self-destruction – male or female – feel the need to take out others as well, especially children! Why can’t they just kill themselves only and have it done with???? The mother was INTENT upon wanting her close ones left behind to be tormented. My heart goes out for the two boys….those poor, poor boys….. I sure hope they are in a good place.
This is a dreadful thing to have happened. This poor woman must have been in such a terrible mental state to have done this to her children. They are going to be missed by everyone and remembered forever. To the boys: R.I.P.
Women who had such bad post-partum depression cold become psychotic, homicidal and suicidal. We should’nt be so quick to judge this woman. There’s a very good chance she was mentally ill and may later be declared not criminally responsible for her actions by a forensic psychiatrist due to her mental health. Nobody who is sane does this sort of thing. My prayers are with the remaining family.
I am always lost for words when a woman takes her own children’s lives! This is a terrible way for anyone to die. She should have been able to look into her children’s eyes and think twice. Imagine undressing them, piling the clothes neatly on the pier, then dumping them into the cold water; sad! If you want to kill yourself that’s one thing, but why take the life of a child? I have 3 boys and a girl myself and could never harm them in any way! May the children’s sould rest in peace!
All the conditions that she faced were not unique. Unfortunately, of all the choices she may have had available, she choose to kill her children. Nothing makes this ‘Ok’ and projecting and transferring blame to the Kenya-Stockholm community is the same as not taking responsibility for her actions. She chose to lay down, have unprotected sex, and birth these children. She also chose to load the children whatever carriage and shove them into the water, drowning them. Anyone defending this woman’s actions and trying to find a ‘reasonable explaination’ for them should be ashamed of themselves.
People should not be ‘reactive’ when outside influences are affecting them. There were many other options but she choose to murder her children. For you to find a way to justify or transfer blame is ignorant.
What a monster! So she decided to give her kids the death penalty because she was frustrated? Pure bullcrap.
i think sometin make her do this ,very bad .she could have take her life, not the kids well may the soul off the kids rest i peace. comment by sonia.september 26