translated from Spanish: A woman killed her three children and then tried to commit suicide

a strong case shocked the world: a woman killed her children of 1, 5 and 7 years and then tried to commit suicide, apparently for abuse suffered at the hands of her partner and the fami This Lia.

The incident, which became known this week, happened in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba. “She has left a letter and two videos, one in which talks about the abuse he received from your spouse and family of their spouse, which was where they lived, and also children has filmed them, three children” , told Efe the representative in that city of the citizen network against child abuse and the infanticide, Carolina Rivera.

According to preliminary information that failed to get Rivera in the police, the 25-year-old woman first did take some pills to children and then choked them. It subsequently swallowed a packet of rat poison, but it did not die.

The spouse’s profession bricklayer, had gone out drinking last Friday, and when he returned to his house on Monday found the children dead and dying mother, so it took her to a hospital, said Rivera. “Is now in intensive care in the Viedma hospital and is being held, are not allowed to talk with her,” he added.

The father of the children was arrested and investigated him for alleged violence against women. The activist explained that the entity that it represents awaits to the woman recovers to talk to her and know first-hand what happened.

In the first half of the year, the Bolivian prosecutor recorded 61 femicides, 37 infanticide and 12.746 cases of family violence, most in Santa Cruz, La Paz and Cochabamba, the most populated regions of the country.

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