Ohio Mom's Confession Details How She Smothered 3 Young Sons
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP/KDKA) - An Ohio woman accused of suffocating her three young sons over a 13-month period says in a recorded police interview that she smothered each boy with a blanket over the face because she didn't want to see them suffering.
The Columbus Dispatch reports Brittany Pilkington also said she was depressed and worried her sons would eventually become abusive toward women. The woman told investigators her own father had beaten her and thrown her across the room when she was a child.
3-month-old son, Niall, was the first to die. He was in her bed with her when she held a blanket over his face, she said.
4-year-old son, Gavin, was the second to be killed. She said he was in bed kicking his legs in struggle as she held a blanket over his nose and mouth, suffocating him.
The third to die was 3-month-old Noah. Pilkington said he had been fussing that night. She changed his diaper and put him back in his crib before covering his face with a blanket as he lay in his crib.
A Logan County judge has been reviewing Pilkington's statements while considering a request to exclude her confession in the potential death penalty case. Her lawyers argue it was obtained unconstitutionally.
Prosecutors say the 24-year-old Bellefontaine woman knowingly agreed to be interviewed without a lawyer.
Authorities allege she killed the toddler and two infants out of jealousy at the attention her husband gave them. She has pleaded not guilty.
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