29-year-old Lissette Bamenga had reason to believe that her police officer husband had a child with another woman, so she decided that there was only way to teach him a lesson: kill the kids and kill herself too.
After doing some research on the internet, she gave 5-year-old Trevor and 4-month-old Liliane some grape juice spiked with windshield wiper fluid. After that didn't work, she drowned them in the bathtub. She wrote two notes, one that said DNR (do not resuscitate) and the other one, the official suicide note which included a message to her husband telling him that she was giving him what he wanted. She also wrote in it that she and the kids were in a better place. Then she tried to kill herself by cutting her wrists. Perhaps she didn't have it in her to do it, because the cuts weren't deep enough to be effective.
After that, the schoolteacher sealed off the windows, brought the already dead kids to the kitchen, and turned on the gas burners to the stove.
A neighbor called 911 when he smelled the gas fumes late that evening. Firefighters kicked the door in and tried to revive the lifeless children. Unfortunately, they were declared dead on the scene. Naturally, Bamenga didn't die as planned, so she ended up going to the hospital.
She was arrested, charged with two counts of murder and held without bond until her court date later this week. Bamenga and her attorney put in a plea of not guilty. They are also talking about playing the mistrial card because she was interviewed by investigators in the hospital while she was partly unconscious and incapable of giving an interview. Yeah...good luck with that.
Why do women who try to kill themselves along with their children always survive? Remember the guy who said the world was going to end in May of last year, only to change it to October of last year, only to just say "f*ck it, I give up"? Well, this woman from California slit her 11 and 14-year-old daughters' writs and throats because she didn't want them to go through the May "apocalypse". She then slit her own wrists, but couldn't do it like she did her too-old-to-sit-there-and-let-their-mom-cut-on-them daughters. So yeah, she lived. Maybe it's the pain that keeps 'em from going all the way.
So...
Based on the information given, how did this story make you feel? Do you think Bamenga should spend the rest of her life in jail? How about psychological help? Do you think she could go free because of the hospital interview with the investigators? Do you know anyone who tried to commit suicide but lived?
