Police arrested a young
mother on Tuesday on suspicion of smothering
her three young children to death, one at a time,
in the family’s Phoenix home, then propping their
bodies on a sofa as if they were napping,
authorities and court records said.
Rachel Henry, 22, was booked into the Maricopa
County jail on three counts of first-degree murder
after admitting she had harmed the children,
Phoenix Police Sergeant Mercedes Fortune said.
Court records later showed she was being held in
lieu of bail of $3 million. The 30-year-old father
and a 49-year-old relative identified in redacted
court records as the homeowner and an aunt were
also taken in for questioning.
Police initially said the cause of the children’s
deaths had yet to be determined and there were
no obvious signs of trauma.
A probable cause statement filed in court by police
and later made public said Henry had admitted to
deliberately smothering each child - two girls, aged
7 months and a year, and a 3-year-old boy -
starting with the older daughter.
It was not immediately clear if Henry had an
attorney.
The probable cause statement filed by police said
Henry confessed to placing her hands over the
nose and mouth of the victims until each stopped
breathing, and she described smothering the 1-
year-old while the girl’s brother looked on, yelling
at his mother to stop and punching her “to no
avail.”
She recounted smothering the 3-year-old next,
straddling him on the floor of a bedroom as she
sang to the child and he tried scratching and
pinching her until he died, according to the
probable cause statement. It said she then fed her
7-month-old daughter a bottle before smothering
her, again while singing to the infant.
Afterward, according to the statement, Henry
placed all three children “on the living room
couch as if they were taking a nap” without telling
either of the two other adults in the house what
had happened.
Police said they went to the home on Monday
night after responding to an emergency call from a
relative inside and found the three children who
were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police offered no possible motive for the killings,
but court records cited one of the other adults in
the house as having told police that Henry “had a
methamphetamine addiction and had been acting
strange the past several days.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arizona-crime/arizona-mother-arrested-on-suspicion-of-killing-her-three-children-idUSKBN1ZK2BU

How can the same person have a 7 month old and a one year old? How she take do am?