Los Angeles mother murders her 3 kids
In the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, officers responding to a call about an assault discovered a grizzly scene: 3 dead children, two boys and a girl, ranging in age from 8 to 12. The children’s mother, 38-year-old Angela Flores, “admitted to killing her children,” said a department spokeswoman, and was arrested. A 16-year-old was also detained as a possible accessory. (Associated Press, May 10, 2022)

Arizona mother mutilates and murders her children
Yui Inoue, a 40-year-old mother in Tempe, Arizona, was arrested for murdering her two children. She and her husband were in the midst of a divorce, and police were called out to the house around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 15, 2021, to settle a “domestic dispute.” The couple was separated but no arrests were made. The children were sleeping safe in their beds at the time, according to police reports.

Downstairs neighbors Tina and Tony Sohl reported hearing noises sometime between 4 and 5 a.m. “It sounded like somebody may have been pounding or running around,” Tina said. “I just heard some really hard – what sounded like could’ve been pounding…and I thought I heard a child crying at some point.”

Inoue claims she has no memory of what happened, saying she woke up covered in blood. She later told an officer she was “hearing voices telling her to kill her kids.” Officers arrived to find a grizzly scene: The two children bludgeoned to death, with sharp cuts and “some amputations,” as well as defensive wounds suggesting they had tried to shield themselves from their mother’s attack. (Torres, 2021)

Torres, M. (2021, May 17) “Tempe mother tells police she woke up to find her 2 kids dead,” The Arizona Republic, p. 12A

Mother Smothers Kids Over One Year Period (10-20-2016)
In Bellefontaine, Ohio, 24-year-old Brittany Pilkington was facing charges that she suffocated her three young sons over a period of 13 months, smothering each boy with a blanket over the face. In police interviews she claims that she killed her children because she didn’t want to see them suffering and was afraid they might become abusive toward women.