'Harsh' to convict 'mentally ill' Lauren Dickason of children's murders - expert
After a four week trial, it took a jury two days to find Lauren Dickason guilty of murdering her three young daughters. Dickason now faces a life sentence for each murder conviction. Her parents say "this was not our daughter" and believe a debilitating mental illness caused her to kill six year old Liane and two-year-old twins, Karla and Maya. The jury disagreed, and believed she knew what she was doing. So what drives a parent to commit such a terrible crime? Professor Thea Brown from Monash University's Filicide Research Hub, and one of the authors of the book, When Parents Ki...
Source: rnz.co.nz
